I orginally added the progress mechanism for the IBM RS/6000's. Some have a LCD display (the progress messages appear there) and som others only had a panel with 4 7-segment LED displays. The numbers are supposed to be unique to each message so it's possible to look the message up.
} Please forgive my ignorance, but for sometime I've been wondering what } that hex number passed to the ppc_md.progress function is for. Do } certain debuggers like xmon use it? } } Thanks, } Jeff Kowing } } -- } Jeff Kowing } jeffrey.d.kowing1 at jsc.nasa.gov } ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
