SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote:

> There are 3 pci slots on m758/m787.  If I want to use all 3 slots, I need
> to disable audio/modem.  However, some applications might not want to disable
> audio.  Even storing IRQ assignment is also very useful for debugging 
> purpose.  Storing boot option is useful, too. I'm just thinking flexablity 
> here.

Eric set up a nice infrastructure for CMOS, and we have not yet used it. 
Sounds like we now have an application. I would like to have the LinuxBIOS 
code that uses the CMOS written in C, however. How late in the boot 
process can you enable/disable this hardware and have it work correctly?

ron