Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Richard A. Smith wrote:
>
> > Won't you need some sort of watchdog timer for that? If the kernel
> > you are loading gacks I don't think you can recover w/o a reset.
>
> I think there are multiple scenarios, some requiring reset, others
> not. But we need to get a standard for CMOS so we can keep state in there
> to tell what happened. I put out a RFC on that to this list a few months
> back but we were all to busy to do much with it.
>
> I would welcome any ideas on this one.
Ron sorry for not getting back on this. I definentily plan to look at
it as I stabalize the board I'm working on. Where I'm at now is that
there are some things we can standardize across linuxBIOS (like
detecting a bad boot, but for the rest we'll need some kind of
description of what we place in CMOS or in the flash chip, so a user
space program can set it.
Eric
