Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:47:00 +0200 (CEST) | From | Peter Svensson <> | Subject | Re: reading/writing CMOS beyond 256 bytes? |
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
> I wrote a little brogram to read/write the CMOS settings to a file on an > Intel L440GX motherboard using the outb() to ports 0x70 and 0x71. The idea > is to save the BIOS settings I like and then be able to blast them from > within Linux without having to tinker with BIOS setup. > > Unfortunately, it seems that some settings are not in the 128 (or 256) > bytes accessible this way, so they must be stored elsewhere.
the L440GX has a lot of stuff attached to ipmi. Perhaps some of it is stored there? Just a thought.
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