Re: [Etherboot-developers] Adding real-mode stack for prot_to_real

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>We also need to load the GDT, and segment registers with the values
>mknbi assumes are in use.  A protected mode entry point can only
>sanely assume a flat 32bit address space with a base address of 0.
>I have played with the former and checked it into the developer etherboot
>CVS tree.  But I had not identified the remaing stack issue.

I have some time this weekend and will get a round tuit. It's fairly
easy to fix, just do what menustart.S does, that is, switch GDTs, get a
private stack, in this case at the top of the 6kB allocated to
first32.c, then copy the 3 arguments over and jump to the entry point of
first32.c.