[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH master, stable-0.12] linuxboot: fix gdt address calculation

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/24/2009 02:38 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> The gdt address calculation in linuxboot.bin is broken in two ways: first
> it loads %cs into %eax, but that instruction leaves the high bits of %eax
> undefined and we did not clear them.  Secondly, we completely ignore the
> incorrect %eax, and use the undefined %ebx instead.
>
> With these issues fixed, linuxboot works again.

Wow, I wonder how it worked for me...

Paolo