x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the video code

Impact: BIOS proofing

"Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the video code.

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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/video.h b/arch/x86/boot/video.h
index ee63f5d14461..5bb174a997fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/video.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/video.h
@@ -112,20 +112,6 @@ extern int force_x, force_y;	/* Don't query the BIOS for cols/rows */
 extern int do_restore;          /* Restore screen contents */
 extern int graphic_mode;        /* Graphics mode with linear frame buffer */
 
-/*
- * int $0x10 is notorious for touching registers it shouldn't.
- * gcc doesn't like %ebp being clobbered, so define it as a push/pop
- * sequence here.
- *
- * A number of systems, including the original PC can clobber %bp in
- * certain circumstances, like when scrolling.  There exists at least
- * one Trident video card which could clobber DS under a set of
- * circumstances that we are unlikely to encounter (scrolling when
- * using an extended graphics mode of more than 800x600 pixels), but
- * it's cheap insurance to deal with that here.
- */
-#define INT10 "pushl %%ebp; pushw %%ds; int $0x10; popw %%ds; popl %%ebp"
-
 /* Accessing VGA indexed registers */
 static inline u8 in_idx(u16 port, u8 index)
 {