RE: [OpenBIOS] PC-CMOS memory.. - OpenBIOS

10 Feb 2000


      On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
...
Is there a secure way to access anything in the CMOS over 128 bytes? I wrote
some patches for the Linux nvram driver a long time ago to access not only ,64
bytes, but 128 bytes.
I read somewhere that everything over 128 bytes has to be accessed over
io registers 0x72 and 0x73 instead of 0x70 and 0x71. Has anyone information on
that issue?
You need to check datasheets of particular chips (for example look at
Dallas Semiconductor's site for specs of DS12887) to see how to access the
extra space (IIRC, DS12887 uses banking).  For PC machines, bit #7 at 0x70
is used to drive an external NMI mask latch.
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+  Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland   +
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