linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] save registers around VESA BIOS calls

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:26:43 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Will Simoneau <simoneau@....uri.edu>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] save registers around VESA BIOS calls

Will Simoneau wrote:
> 
> Apparently some VESA BIOS implementations clobber our registers when called.
> Tell gcc about it.
> 
> This makes my Dell Inspiron 5150 boot correctly instead of hanging.
> 

OK, we probably should use the INT10 macro, then, for these, too, as 
well as change the other two int 0x10 callsites.

So much for optimism...

	-hpa

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