On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:52:50AM -0800, Dave Ashley wrote:
C) VGA bios lockup fix, if an unacceptable INT is called, vga init is aborted.
Similar functionality is already in the current CVS freebios tree.
D) Actual pci reset on startup to reset the pci card to known state. This prevents lockups if the card is requesting an interrupt for example.
I like this idea.
Also I noticed hardwaremain() has the code to call hard_reset() when the boot_complete parameter is set, but I haven't figured out how this parameter is set.