[Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH] X86EMU: handle CPUID instruction (passthrough)

[Jaymz Julian]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:04:02PM -0500, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> * Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> [080202 17:23]:
> > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:40:30PM -0500, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> > > The opcode was 0F A2, or CPUID; it was not implemented in the emulator.
> > > This simple patch, against 1.3.0.0, handles the CPUID instruction by
> > > getting the values from the real hardware (Geode LX in this case).
> > 
> > Er, that won't work on non-x86 architectures, so you really want to,
> > well, emulate it, and then return a fake result.
> 
> I am a bit confused.  Is there a case where one would use BIOS and 
> INT 0x10 services on a non x86 architecture?

POSTing an ordinary ISA/PCI vga card on {ppc|arm|sparc|other isa/pci 
non-x86 archs}

	--jj

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