Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:34:25 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT |
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Hi!
> > Ok. I've thought about it some more, but I don't care enough about > > this issue to do the painstaking legwork: I don't have one of those > > POST-code indicators on port 0x80. > > > > I've made the "pause" in outb_p just a few (*) ns slower, because it > > now loads a variable before outputting the value to port 0x80. As the > > whole idea about this is "pausing", making it a bit slower shouldn't > > matter too much. I've tested it: It compiles, it boots. > > > > I'm not too familar with the syntax of the "asm" statement. So I may > > illegally be modifying the AX register. I don't care enough about this > > to figure it out right now. > > > > It is; you'd have to specify "eax" as a clobber value, and that is > undesirable. > > And you're still overwriting the POST value written by the BIOS.
So save value from bios at initial boot ;-). Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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