/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot/cdboot.S

Yuichiro Goto goto at acr.kanazawa-it.ac.jp
Fri Jan 13 06:02:57 PST 2006


Hello,

When I viewed /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot/cdboot.S, I found a minor bug
in the subroutine twiddle. XLAT instruction requires that BX register
have a table address, but the code fails to load the address:

Index: cdboot.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /dcvs/src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot/cdboot.S,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 cdboot.S
--- cdboot.S 19 Jul 2004 23:30:36 -0000 1.6
+++ cdboot.S 13 Jan 2006 13:32:19 -0000
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@
twiddle: push %ax # Save
push %bx # Save
mov twiddle_index,%al # Load index
- mov twiddle_chars,%bx # Address table
+ mov $twiddle_chars,%bx # Address table
inc %al # Next
and $3,%al # char
mov %al,twiddle_index # Save index for next call

Regards,

Yuichiro Goto






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