Message: 2 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:48:24 +0200 From: "Alex G." mr.nuke.me@gmail.com To: "coreboot@coreboot.org" coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: Re: [coreboot] [PATCH] outb(* 0x80) to post_code() Message-ID: 4D67EB68.2090609@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Find attached the version with the colloquial verbiage abridged.
Alex
IMO POST_DIE should not be 0xff to reduce confusion. That code, in most other BIOS vendors, is emitted when all is well and OS has begun booting. I am proposing reserving the range 0xE0-0xEF for unrecoverable errors. We already have POST_DEAD_CODE being 0xEE. Going along this line we should make POST_DIE 0xEF, possibly alternating with another code if more detail is to be provided.
What do you think?