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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: KERNEL BUG: console not working in linux
Date: 27 Nov 2000 17:40:58 -0800
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By author:    Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
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> 
> What about adding an additional
> 
> 	andb	$0xfe, %al
> 
> in front of the outb?
> If I understand things correctly, bit 0 of 0x92 is write-only
> on some hardware, and writing 1 to it causes a reset, so we
> never want that.
> 

Already in test12-pre1.  Admittedly, this bit is defined to always
read back as 0, but this is the PC architecture (using the term *very*
loosely here!!!) we're talking about.

	-hpa
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