Messages in this thread | | | From | tenthumbs@cybernex ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NMI trap revised (was Re: NMI errors in 2.0.30??) | Date | Fri, 09 May 1997 16:02:19 GMT |
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On Fri, 9 May 1997 17:01:56 +0200, you wrote:
> After studying lots of specs and testing it on several motherboards, it > seems that those bits are implemented almost everywhere and hard-wired to zeroes > on the remaining MB's. We probably should honor them and report the reason > to the user if we find any. >
Well, I have very little faith in motherboard manufacturers and BIOS writers, so I wouldn't believe anything I didn't set myself.
> > This is really an issue about where hardware initialization should occur. The > > real-mode setup.S seems to be the intended place to do this sort of thing, but > > very few people like writing assembler code so it tends to clutter up the kernel > > proper. I have a few ideas about this. Maybe something will happen in a few > > weeks. > > We probably don't have any hardware to be initialized as we must not touch > the enables (see the previous discussion). > > Martin
Again, this depends on how much trust you have in the hardware setup.
John
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