[LinuxBIOS] [v3][PATCH] POST_CODE macro

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sun Jul 22 16:55:01 CEST 2007


* ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> [070720 23:33]:
> Sorry I have not been paying close attention.
> 
> Why is post code a library function? So you can extend it with serial
> post output, and so on. I don't think this macro is the right thing to
> do. We've had post_code do much more over the years than outb to port
> 0x80.

Do we really need to extend this? I always got the impression that post
codes are completely useless because that technology has been
superseeded by serial console a couple of decades ago.



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