[LinuxBIOS] No console, yet... Ideas?

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Jan 24 00:04:50 CET 2006


Adam Talbot wrote:
> Console is working.  Fully tested. 
> Post card... There are no PCI/ISA slots on this board, all I have is 1 
> pc/104 slot and no jtag.  The superIO is controled by a via vt1211.  I 
> think I have that part of my config correct. (see below) But I am not 
> sure how to figure out the pnp address. 
> -Adam
> 
>  chip superio/via/vt1211
>                                         device pnp 2e.2 on      #  Com1
>                                            io 0x60 = 0x3f8
>                                           irq 0x70 = 4
>                                         end
> 
> Adam Talbot wrote:
> 
> 

as richard says:

main(){
	iopl(3);

	inb(0x2e);

	/* and print that out, see if it is 0xff */
	inb(0x4e); // or whatever

}

in other words, from a c program, just try to recreate what linuxbios 
does for I/o to superio, and see what works.

ron




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