Tested on my system, using bios-es from FC. Doesn't work.

I guess I have to port x86emu from x.org.

2014-05-10 18:44 GMT+04:00, Wolf Ramovsky <[email protected]>:
> I've modified library. Since I'm very limited in hardware resources, I
> can't test it on FC.
> I won't commit modifications untill them work.
>
> 2014-05-10 17:06 GMT+04:00, Wolf Ramovsky <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Martin
>>
>> Big thanks for your investigation. It helped me to find potential
>> solution. Support of lea instuction was implemented in x.org x86emu
>> library (see [1]), but haven't ported to *BSD lib ([2]).
>> I'm going to port patch now.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/hw/xfree86/x86emu?id=f57bc0ede8e018c7e264b917927c42a018cd1d5a
>> [2]
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wolf-ramovsky/helenos/libx86emu/view/head:/uspace/lib/x86emu/x86emu.c#L2146
>>
>> 2014-05-10 2:43 GMT+04:00, Martin Decky <[email protected]>:
>>> Hi Wolf,
>>>
>>>> Surprisingly, the mode setting code failed in my QEMU (in Fedora 19 and
>>>> Fedora 20) with the following messages:
>>>>
>>>> rdb: address unknown 0x00002fda
>>>> rdb: address unknown 0xc11e0000
>>>> Mode 0xc112 unsupported
>>>>
>>>> I have checked and the VESA mode 0x112 is supported by the VESA BIOS in
>>>> my QEMU (and works correctly if set by GRUB). Below is the list of the
>>>> package versions if you would like to reproduce it (I'll try to look
>>>> into it as well, again as time permits):
>>>>
>>>> qemu-system-x86-1.6.2-4.fc20.x86_64
>>>> seavgabios-bin-1.7.3.1-2.fc20.noarch
>>>>
>>>> qemu-system-x86-1.4.2-15.fc19.x86_64
>>>> seavgabios-bin-1.7.2.2-3.fc19.noarch
>>>
>>> I have done some further investigation. With newer VGA SeaBIOS from
>>> upstream (post-1.7.4) there are no longer the messages about unknown
>>> addresses, but the VESA mode stays undetected.
>>>
>>> I believe this might be related to the following changeset that speaks
>>> about older versions of x86emu and the emulation of the leal
>>> instructions:
>>>
>>> http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/commit/8032b8a0fec550de5cb2f7d37aa031cebc2200c3/
>>>
>>> Just my 2 cents.
>>>
>>>
>>> M.D.
>>>
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