Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 08:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 08:47:32 -0400 Received: from k7g317-2.kam.afb.lu.se ([130.235.57.218]:64013 "EHLO cheetah.psv.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 08:47:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:47:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Svensson To: "Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy" cc: Subject: Re: reading/writing CMOS beyond 256 bytes? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: > I wrote a little brogram to read/write the CMOS settings to a file on an > Intel L440GX motherboard using the outb() to ports 0x70 and 0x71. The idea > is to save the BIOS settings I like and then be able to blast them from > within Linux without having to tinker with BIOS setup. > > Unfortunately, it seems that some settings are not in the 128 (or 256) > bytes accessible this way, so they must be stored elsewhere. the L440GX has a lot of stuff attached to ipmi. Perhaps some of it is stored there? Just a thought. Peter -- Peter Svensson ! Pgp key available by finger, fingerprint: ! 8A E9 20 98 C1 FF 43 E3 07 FD B9 0A 80 72 70 AF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember, Luke, your source will be with you... always... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/