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- Sometimes applications need to be able to reboot the Amiga under software
- control. However, rebooting the machine is very tricky, and most attempts
- have been flawed. The RESET instruction, for example, unconfigures all
- memory; after RESET there is no reliable place to run user code. Most
- reboot code will break whenever the memory or CPU configuration is changed.
- Other reset code will not work properly on the Amiga 1000.
-
- In fact, rebooting the Amiga is so tricky that even the official reboot code
- published by Commodore will not work in every case. (This article replaces
- "The Official Way to Software Reboot an Amiga" from the July/August 1989
- issue of Amiga Mail, Exec, page III-9.) Some versions of the A2000 have
- a 0.1 uf capacitor (C909) on the hardware reset line. This capacitor has
- the effect of rejecting short reset pulses, including some of those
- generated by the CPU RESET instruction.
-
- The ColdReboot() function listed below should be used whenever an application
- needs to reboot the Amiga. ColdReboot() is the only officially supported way
- to reboot an Amiga under software control.
-
- Even this code will fail under some circumstances. Some processor cards
- from third-party manufacturers lock up when the RESET instruction is used.
- (Great Valley Products (GVP) offers an upgrade PAL to fix this problem.)
- Likewise, if the user has a 68020 or 68030 coprocessor card and has copied
- the Kickstart ROM image into 32-bit memory with the command SetCPU FASTROM,
- the NewReboot() function will not work properly. To fix this, give the
- command SetCPU NOFASTROM.
-
- TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The code below precalculates a jump address, executes
- a RESET instruction, then relies on CPU prefetch to execute the jump. The
- precalculated jump is constructed to enter the system ROM at the location of
- a second RESET instruction.
-
- ****************************************************************************
- *
- * NAME
- * ColdReboot - Official code to reset any Amiga (Version 2)
- *
- * SYNOPSIS
- * ColdReboot()
- *
- * void ColdReboot(void);
- *
- * FUNCTION
- * Reboot the machine. All external memory and peripherals will be
- * RESET, and the machine will start its power up diagnostics.
- *
- * NOTE
- * Rebooting an Amiga in software is very tricky. Differing memory
- * configurations and processor cards require careful treatment. This
- * code represents the best available general purpose reset. The
- * MagicResetCode must be used exactly as specified here. The code
- * _must_ be longword aligned. Failure to duplicate the code EXACTLY
- * may result in improper operation under certain system configurations.
- *
- * RESULT
- * This function never returns.
- *
- ****************************************************************************
-
- INCLUDE "exec/types.i"
- INCLUDE "exec/libraries.i"
-
- XDEF _ColdReboot
- XREF _LVOSupervisor
-
- ABSEXECBASE EQU 4 ;Pointer to the Exec library base
- MAGIC_ROMEND EQU $01000000 ;End of Kickstart ROM
- MAGIC_SIZEOFFSET EQU -$14 ;Offset from end of ROM to Kickstart size
- V36_EXEC EQU 36 ;Exec with the ColdReboot() function
- TEMP_ColdReboot EQU -726 ;Offset of the V36 ColdReboot function
-
- _ColdReboot: move.l ABSEXECBASE,a6
- cmp.w #V36_EXEC,LIB_VERSION(a6)
- blt.s old_exec
- jmp TEMP_ColdReboot(a6) ;Let Exec do it...
- ;NOTE: Control flow never returns to here
-
- ;---- manually reset the Amiga ---------------------------------------------
- old_exec: lea.l GoAway(pc),a5 ;address of code to execute
- jsr _LVOSupervisor(a6) ;trap to code at (a5)...
- ;NOTE: Control flow never returns to here
-
- ;-------------- MagicResetCode ---------DO NOT CHANGE-----------------------
- CNOP 0,4 ;IMPORTANT! Longword align!
- GoAway: lea.l MAGIC_ROMEND,a0 ;(end of ROM)
- sub.l MAGIC_SIZEOFFSET(a0),a0 ;(end of ROM)-(ROM size)=PC
- move.l 4(a0),a0 ;Get Initial Program Counter
- subq.l #2,a0 ;now points to second RESET
- reset ;first RESET instruction
- jmp (a0) ;CPU Prefetch executes this
- ;NOTE: the RESET and JMP instructions must share a longword!
- ;---------------------------------------DO NOT CHANGE-----------------------
- END
-
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