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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2007-07-16 14:58:24 -0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2007-07-18 14:36:17 -0400
commit8c027ae2dcfa7b9130941a2a743c735c1fee04ee (patch)
treecf0f803ee6f3dcaa323f171b58da0bf0b70c9899 /arch/i386/boot/video.h
parent7ad37df02c529525c4ad19035359af89d2d2a5bd (diff)
[x86 setup] Save/restore DS around invocations of INT 10h
There exists at least one card, Trident TVGA8900CL (BIOS dated 1992/9/8) which clobbers DS when "scrolling in an SVGA text mode of more than 800x600 pixels." Although we are extremely unlikely to run into that situation, it is cheap insurance to save and restore DS, and it only adds a grand total of 50 bytes to the total output. Pointed out by Etienne Lorrain. Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/boot/video.h')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/video.h b/arch/i386/boot/video.h
index 29eca1710b2c..b92447d51213 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/video.h
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/video.h
@@ -117,8 +117,15 @@ extern int graphic_mode; /* Graphics mode with linear frame buffer */
117 * int $0x10 is notorious for touching registers it shouldn't. 117 * int $0x10 is notorious for touching registers it shouldn't.
118 * gcc doesn't like %ebp being clobbered, so define it as a push/pop 118 * gcc doesn't like %ebp being clobbered, so define it as a push/pop
119 * sequence here. 119 * sequence here.
120 *
121 * A number of systems, including the original PC can clobber %bp in
122 * certain circumstances, like when scrolling. There exists at least
123 * one Trident video card which could clobber DS under a set of
124 * circumstances that we are unlikely to encounter (scrolling when
125 * using an extended graphics mode of more than 800x600 pixels), but
126 * it's cheap insurance to deal with that here.
120 */ 127 */
121#define INT10 "pushl %%ebp; int $0x10; popl %%ebp" 128#define INT10 "pushl %%ebp; pushw %%ds; int $0x10; popw %%ds; popl %%ebp"
122 129
123/* Accessing VGA indexed registers */ 130/* Accessing VGA indexed registers */
124static inline u8 in_idx(u16 port, u8 index) 131static inline u8 in_idx(u16 port, u8 index)