I had left a POST board in to use some of the onboard diagnostics,
and when linux was booting I glanced over at it and saw the display going
nuts. When the machine was idle it held at 51, and when I flipped between
virt terms it jumped to 3F and back to 51. Initalizing swap caused it to
flash between 88 and 5 other codes so fast the LCD couldn't keep up.
Compiling the kernel caused the same reaction only a bit slower.
Does linux use 80h, as a status display or some form of
communication channel?
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