On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:20:39PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 06:09:51AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > But the BIOS must be reloaded from ROM, I'm guessing, if the keyboard > > controller method is used and the word asking for a branch back to the > > application has not been set. Because that's how a modern OS (if not > > using ACPI) asks for a system reset. > > > > Do you think the above is (a) correct, and (b) what's implemented? > > > Do different things during reset depending on CMOS values doesn't sound > right to me. I don't know what is implemented right now. I thought that > we reload BIOS on reset.
We could have qemu do a soft reset (not reload rom) on a triple fault or keyboard controller reset, and then have SeaBIOS request a hard reset (have qemu reload rom) if it detects a soft reset that is not a "resume" request. I'm also not sure what qemu does today. -Kevin
