[LinuxBIOS] MB1030 / 3036 VGA comes up :D

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue May 2 20:41:53 CEST 2006


Christian Sühs wrote:
> Richard Smith schrieb:
> 
>>>copying VGA ROM Image from 0xfffc0000 to 0xc0000, 0x8000 bytes
>>>entering emulator
>>>inb(0x03cf) = 0x00
>>>inb(0x03cf) = 0x00
>>>inb(0x03cf) = 0x88
>>>i
>>
>>
>>So its crashing 'inside' of a printk.  0x3cf is a VGA index register.
> 
> 
> Well, I think so. Many logs looks like the one above. The first 
> character is printed. Than nothing no more.

Is the fifo enabled on this uart? if it is, then the output can be kind 
of non-deterministic.

ron




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