Re: KERNEL BUG: console not working in linux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:    Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> What about adding an additional
> 
>       andb    $0xfe, %al
> 
> in front of the outb?
> If I understand things correctly, bit 0 of 0x92 is write-only
> on some hardware, and writing 1 to it causes a reset, so we
> never want that.
> 

Already in test12-pre1.  Admittedly, this bit is defined to always
read back as 0, but this is the PC architecture (using the term *very*
loosely here!!!) we're talking about.

        -hpa
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