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From: <ebi...@ln...> - 2003-01-31 19:40:27
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Timothy Legge <tl...@ro...> writes: > > arch/i386/firmware/pcbios/pcbios.S is where currticks is > > located, and that is what I was thinking of. > > > in start32.S you can comment out the enabling of the > > interrupts in _real_call. > > > I am quite certain there should be some effect. > > My knowledge of Assembly is zero, so I am unsure of which code enables the > registers. When I commented out the call to _real_call in > arch/i386/firmware/pcbios/pcbios.S the pc reboot at the point it used to freeze. > I had done a cvs update earlier and did not have time to check whether the pc > would reboot without commenting out the _real_call call. Good news, bad news. I have managed to reproduce the problem on a k8 system, so it is not a 486 problem. Probably something to do interactions with the old award BIOS core, which it appears my reference system is using... I still don't know just what the issues is but I am looking into it. Eric |
