[SeaBIOS] Some questions

[Stefan Berger]

On 02/28/2011 09:55 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:35:04AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> On 11/25/2010 08:35 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is due to the hierarchical nature of the functions. Also, while
>>>> for example B calls A, B fills a data structure (on the stack) that
>>>> it passes to A. A of course can get the same data structure from the
>>>> user calling the interrupt interface. So, by switching to 32 bit
>>>> mode and converting to 32 bit pointers early I could previously
>>>> avoid a lot of headaches with the segment registers in 16 bit mode
>>>> and reading the data from wherever they may be. Would you have any
>>>> concerns about switching to 32 bit mode early, so that the interrupt
>>>> handler and anything subsequent runs in 32 bit mode?
>>> I can't say for sure what will make sense without seeing the code
>>> first, but it sounds okay to me.
>> I posted the TPM patches yesterday on the Qemu mailing list. It may
>> take some time until TPM functionality becomes available in Qemu,
>> but would you be willing to review the BIOS extensions even without
>> being able to run them (for some time)? It's quite a chunk...
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Yes - please break the patch up into chunks and send it to the list.
I mailed them today to seabios at seabios.org but didn't see them coming 
back or showing up on the webpage. I cc'ed the Qemu mailing list and 
there they are.

   Stefan

> Thanks,
> -Kevin