SiS630 Disabling Embedded Devices (was: Software Watchdog Timer)

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Ip wrote:

> I guess this is me :).  I'll try it and send the result back to 
> the list.  However, we should also think about other way to
> enable/disable devices without rebuilding LinuxBIOS.  Is it 
> possible to do it with cmos like normal bios?
> 

There are actually two cases. The first case is that you never want some 
feature enable because of the motherboard design. The second is that you 
want some features enabled/disabled. 

But I have only ever seen the first case in reality. Are there other 
cases?

ron