On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Collins Chen wrote: > Check-point is just the 80 port value. In AWARD and AMI bios, it > have many check-points and every check-point indicate a step during > system-booting. > For example, in AWARD bios, if 80 port show 0xc1 it indicate bios > is doing memory sizing, 80 port show 0x2b indicate bios is invoking > vga bios. > If linuxbios have the check-point list like these?
yes, linuxbios has lots of these. We actually do much better than standard BIOS because we not only can check-point to the POST card via port 80, we can also output the codes to the serial port. LinuxBIOS has many port 80 outputs. ron
