On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 06:19, Steve M. Gehlbach wrote: > I have an interesting problem with the pcchips m787cl+ motherboard: it won't > do a reboot. If you use the three finger salute or issue an init 6, it > hangs at the "Restarting system" message at the bottom of the shutdown > cycle. > > I traced the code to the machine_restart sub in arch/i386/kernel/process.c. > It seems that linux tries to reset using a keyboard command (out 0xfe,0x64) > and if that fails it forces a triple fault. Neither seem to work. I tried > setting b0 of reg 0x46 in the ISA bridge (-d 1039:8), on the sis630e, which > is labeled "Enable Keyboard Hardware Reset", but it didn't work. So I put > in a patch to process.c that sets b6,7 of reg 0x46 of the ISA bridge, and > this works, it causes a reset (per the data sheet). But of course that is a > kernel patch and I would like to avoid that. >
The ACPI watch dog code is in the SiS LinuxBIOS patch avaliable on CVS. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
