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Message-ID: <20070611085652.GA4032@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:56:52 +0200
From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@...e.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc: Christian Leber <christian@...er.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: beeping patch for debugging acpi sleep
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
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