From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:15:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: kvm: Document the 'reset vector' hack
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kvm: Document the 'reset vector' hack

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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diff --git a/tools/kvm/kvm.c b/tools/kvm/kvm.c
index e922b93804c8..b7ec6e625ad3 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/kvm.c
+++ b/tools/kvm/kvm.c
@@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ static inline uint32_t segment_to_flat(uint16_t selector, uint16_t offset)
 	return ((uint32_t)selector << 4) + (uint32_t) offset;
 }
 
+/*
+ * HACK ALERT! KVM seems to be unable to run 16-bit real mode if 'cs' selector
+ * does not equal to 0xf000 at the beginning. To work around that, we need a
+ * 'reset vector' at 0xf000:0xfff0 that has an hard-coded jump to 0x000:0x7c000
+ * where we also load the Linux kernel boot sector and setup code.
+ */
+
 #define RESET_VECTOR_CS		0xf000
 #define RESET_VECTOR_IP		0xfff0