Re: [Etherboot-developers] Comboot - Local Boot Support

On Monday 22 September 2008 21:54:38 Daniel Verkamp wrote:
> PS: This patch is also ready for review for mainline; CCing to
> etherboot-developers (there is an equivalent function for PM instead
> of RM, so I can write that one as well if desired before review).

Thanks for implementing this.  I'm a bit dubious about constructing executable 
code to implement the register loads; it feels as though there ought to be a 
neater way than this.  Maybe have a static buffer in .text16, copy the 
syslinux_rm_regs struct to this buffer, and use

  __asm__ __volatile__ ( REAL_CODE ( "movl %cs:syslinux_rm_eax, %eax\n\t"
								.... ) );

to load up the register contents and jump?  It should work out smaller than 
the current code, I think.  You can probably optimise this further.

Michael

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