[LinuxBIOS] What's stored in the CMOS by LB?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [060425 20:44]:
> > 2) If yes, is there anything in there that could become corrupted and 
> > cause "weird issues" as described above?
> 
> What's exception 6? I don't recall.
 
illegal opcode. 

I think I saw this on opteron before as well, but I don't remember the
issue. i seem to remember that writing all 0 to cmos and populating it
from scratch made it work reliably.

> sometimes clocking info is stored in CMOS. There could be a collision here.




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