Trying to get a handle on CMOS usage

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Wed Nov 5 07:45:01 CET 2003


* ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [031105 06:54]:
> - what bits in CMOS is linuxbios V2 currently messing with?  (yeah, I
>   should know this, but it turns out I don't currently; I'm still looking for 
>   the place where linuxbios V2 writes to cmos nowadays)
> 
> Finally, is the CMOS really 256 bytes nowadays on something like the EPIA, 
> or are we stuck at 128 still? I'm not sure at this point. 
 
Almost all machines nowadays come with 256 bytes.

  Stefan

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