Subject: Re: sysctl interface to bootflags?
From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davej@suse.de
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Date: 08 Oct 2001 22:56:26 -0400
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Well, it may run, but what it changed was NOT the SBF field.
When I restarted my machine the BIOS beeped and told me
there was an error in the nonvolatile RAM.  I was made to
reset the system date, and then the computer rebooted
normally.

--
Thomas

> Thanks.  I tested the new sbf.c and after hacking it a
> bit to remove the fail-on-invalid-reg-value, it runs:
>
> root@thanatos:/home/jdthood/src/sbf# ./a.out
> BOOT @ 0x07fd0040
> CMOS register: 0x33
> Read current value := 0x88
> Read updated value := 0x89
>
> Here it has set bit 0, the PnP-OS bit.  Do you have any
> plans to enhance the program to allow control of all the flags?


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