Re: [PATCH] Use correct x86 reboot vector

Jos Hulzink (josh@stack.nl)
Sat, 10 May 2003 22:55:57 +0200


On Saturday 10 May 2003 20:10, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Jos Hulzink wrote:
> > For the sake of bad behaving BIOSes however, I'd vote for the f000:fff0
> > vector, unless someone can hand me a paper that says it is wrong.
>
> I agree, for the simple reason that it is what the chip does on a
> hardware reset signal.

Hmzz... this seems indeed true for the 386, that's the only doc I got at hands
here. Willing to believe that this is the hardware behaviour of all 386 and
newer 32 bit procs.

If this really fixes some issues, I'm eager to see that BIOS code....

Jos
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