On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: > >> That being said, one could argue that since this is a BIOS interface it > >> should be queried via INT 16h, AH=02h and stuffed in the zeropage > >> structure. This would also solve the issue of it not being supported by > >> non-BIOS firmware. > > > > This is an interesting option, but it's more invasive. I'd rather like a > > feedback saying we can depend on that data area to be there. > > I don't think we can. You might find garbage there.
I asked you not to say that ... Can somebody using LinuxBIOS or OpenFirmware please do dd if=/dev/mem bs=1 count=1 skip=$((0x417)) | hexdump - and - dd if=/dev/mem bs=1 count=14 skip=$((0x400)) | hexdump You should get - one byte for the keyboard status, 0x20 == Numlock - seven words for the legacy serial and parallel ports, port address only (e.g. 03f8 02f8 0000 0000 0378 0000 0000) -- C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
