[coreboot] What is the purpose of hard_reset function?

matti christensen mattic at iki.fi
Thu Jul 4 14:58:06 CEST 2013


Hello

i have a 200 mhz box w sis soc that looks like the box on
http://www.vortex86.com/index2.html - some guestions;

--- do you think your port of coreboot might work on this previous brand also ?
--- where can i buy your board or whole box ?

/mc

On 7/4/13, Andrew Wu <andrewwu.tw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am porting coreboot to our own product(Vortex86EX). I see there is a
> function called "hard_reset". Some boards implements this function, and
> some don't. Looks like each different mainboard has different
> implementation of hard_reset.
>
> Now I just wrote a blank hard_reset function, but maybe it is not right.
>
> So what is the purpose of this function? What should I put inside this
> function? To reset the system, why not just use system port(92h port)?
>


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---keep-IT-simple---



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