From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Patch for review and testing Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:05:36 +1100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1075251935.6296.243.camel@gaston> References: <1075251694.30622.240.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AleCW-0003XN-JM for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:09:04 -0800 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=root) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30) id 1AleCW-0002gW-74 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:09:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1075251694.30622.240.camel@gaston> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Fbdev development list , Andrew Morton On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 12:01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Yes. The code is run in real mode before linux is started. > > Ok, I've chatted with some x86 folks, it should still be > possible to check the commandline (cmd_line_ptr defined > in setup.S). Actually, I discussed with Andi and he doesn't like the cmdline neither... He says that with an exception handler and an interrupt hooked on the 8253 you can catch the crash and do a timeout :) Also, we cna just blacklist those BIOSes... or find out how windows calls this call and do the same (that would work :) Ben ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn