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2014-01-05x86, boot: Move intcall() to the .inittext sectionH. Peter Anvin1-2/+2
The .inittext section tries to aggregate all functions which are needed to get a message out in the case of a load failure. However, putchar() uses intcall(), so intcall() should be in the .inittext section. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-twxm8igouzbmsklmf6lfyq0w@git.kernel.org
2014-01-05x86, boot: Use .code16 instead of .code16gccDavid Woodhouse1-1/+1
This reverts commit 28b48688 ("x86, boot: use .code16gcc instead of .code16"). Versions of binutils older than 2.16 are already not working, so this workaround is no longer necessary either. At the same time, some of the transformations that .code16gcc does can be *extremely* counterintuitive to a human programmer. [ hpa: folded ret -> retl and call -> calll fixes from followup patch ] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1388788242.2391.75.camel@shinybook.infradead.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-17x86, boot: use .code16gcc instead of .code16H. Peter Anvin1-1/+1
Use .code16gcc to compile arch/x86/boot/bioscall.S rather than .code16, since some older versions of binutils can't generate 32-bit addressing expressions (67 prefixes) in .code16 mode, only in .code16gcc mode. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-12x86, setup: fix comment in the "glove box" codeH. Peter Anvin1-1/+1
Impact: Comment change only The glove box is about avoiding problems with *registers* being touched, not *memory*. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-10x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructureH. Peter Anvin1-0/+82
Impact: new interfaces (not yet used) For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy BIOSes. This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set, perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state. LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>