Re: beeping patch for debugging acpi sleep

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 03:08:17PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

How about (WARNING! I never have written i386 assembly, my last assembly
experience was 20 years ago on Z80, so this is basically just copy'n paste,
but i hope you get the idea):

> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S

> @@ -20,6 +35,9 @@ wakeup_code:
>  	wakeup_code_start = .
>  	.code16
>  
> +# Uncomment this to make your computer start producing ugly noise as soon
> +# as BIOS returns to this real-mode entry point.

        testl   $4, video_flags - wakeup_code
        jz      1f
> +	BEEP
   1:
>   	movw	$0xb800, %ax
>  	movw	%ax,%fs
>  	movw	$0x0e00 + 'L', %fs:(0x10)

IIUC, then this should make "echo 4 > /proc/sys/kernel/acpi_video_flags"
enable the beep at run-time.

Yes, i know, it is not a video flag. And not ACPI. Just add another
sysctl if you care.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices        |              "Any ideas, John?"
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg  | "Well, surrounding them's out." 

This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers:
SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux