On Dec 12, 2007 4:42 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11.12.2007 02:38, ron minnich wrote: > > Add a nice pretty banner printer so we have standard banners. > > > > Maybe make the banner a little bit shorter so bigger strings will fit > without wrapping?
Sure! what's a good length? 20 chars? > > > Make 'halt' just put out nulls forever instead of hlt(), to ensure that any > > fifos > > of any sort get flushed. This change also helps JTAG debuggers since it can > > be very > > hard to get out of a halt instruction, but very easy to get out of an IO > > loop. > > I have direct experience with this latter situation :-) > > > > Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Using banner() in halt() would flush the fifo as well. > Can we use inb(0x80) in the loop instead? That way, we still have an IO > loop, but that loop will not flood the receiver. Plus, it will work much > more nicely with my soon to come printk buffer patches. well, is the banner enough to flush all the fifo's? I thought they got pretty big nowadays. Anyone know? Hey, carl-daniel, what's a good payload for testing my 'payload won't work' problem? Also, I wonder if it is because the payload runs above 0x100000? ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
