Re: [Qemu-devel] Register uhci_reset() callback.

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/16/2009 06:00 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
> > On 06/11/2009 07:40 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >      
> > > > Now, a CPU-only reset, such as triple fault on x86, that's a bit
> > > > different.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > On x86 triple fault wired to system reset.
> > >
> > >        
> > Some actually wire triple fault (shutdown) to init.  It's pretty broken.
> >      
>
> That sounds useful, actually, for those 286 OSes which use
> triple-fault to switch from protected mode to real mode.  No need to
> reinitialise all the hardware if it just restarts the CPU.
>    

Ah, I remember now.  But on modern hardware it breaks badly.  Intel 
processors block INIT if vmx is enabled, and the rest of the hardware 
isn't reset so it could be dmaing all over the place.

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