Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:15:30 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: current@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: Fix for motherboards that don't reboot. Message-ID: <199504190115.LAA15783@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I spent some time talking with a BIOS engineer today about the problem
>of FreeBSD not rebooting on some motherboards and have come up with
>the following patch that fixes the problem on the board I have here.
> void
> cpu_reset() {
>+
>+ /* Attempt to do a CPU reset via the keyboard controller */
>+ outb(IO_KBD + 4, 0xFE);
This is what I implemented for Minix about (sigh) 6 years ago. I found
that outputting 0xFC works better. AFAIR 0xFE strobes the CPU reset
line and 0xFC additionally strobes GateA20. Both methods worked in
protected mode on the machines that I had access to, but in real mode,
(with A20 forced to 0) several machines hung, apparently due to a bad
fetch of the first instruction after reset. The first instruction was
usually invalid and jumped to the BIOS invalid instruction handler,
which was braindamaged and looped. Trapping it with a debugger and
jumping to the correct reset vector worked. I suspect the reset worked
better in protected mode only because the invalid instruction handler
was invalid and the system eventually got reset better after a triple
fault.
Bruce
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