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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:25:24 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: David Golden <david.golden@oceanfree.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO delay, port 0x80, and BIOS POST codes
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Hi!
> > We've got one. Its 0x80. It works everywhere with only marginal non
> > problematic side effects
> 
> I've always liked POST cards.  They could hypothetically be useful
> for kernel development,too  - who hasn't wanted a low-level 
> single-asm-instruction status output from a running system at one time or 
> another , independent of any other output mechanisms?
> 
> OK it's a single byte, but it's still nice...  That's two whole hex digits!
> DE... AD...  BE... EF... !

Use 0x378 for that, works equally well.
								Pavel
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