[Fwd: NXTV's current linuxbios patch]

Takeshi Sone ts1 at tsn.or.jp
Thu Nov 6 11:13:01 CET 2003


On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:52:50AM -0800, Dave Ashley wrote:
> C) VGA bios lockup fix, if an unacceptable INT is called, vga init is aborted.

Similar functionality is already in the current CVS freebios tree.

> D) Actual pci reset on startup to reset the pci card to known state. This
> prevents lockups if the card is requesting an interrupt for example.

I like this idea.

Also I noticed hardwaremain() has the code to call hard_reset() 
when the boot_complete parameter is set, but I haven't figured out how
this parameter is set.
-- 
Takeshi



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