Re: [PATCH] save registers around VESA BIOS calls

Will Simoneau wrote:

Apparently some VESA BIOS implementations clobber our registers when called.
Tell gcc about it.

This makes my Dell Inspiron 5150 boot correctly instead of hanging.

OK, we probably should use the INT10 macro, then, for these, too, as well as change the other two int 0x10 callsites.

So much for optimism...

	-hpa

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