Dell Media Direct button

[Per Öberg]

Hi

Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS.

For my Dell XPS1330M I can determine if the Media button was pressed by
first writing 0xf9 to port 0x70 and then testing bit 0x08 of port 0x71.

It would be really nice if such a test could be enabled in grub so that
grub can go directly to a specific menu alternative without showing the
gui if the media button was pressed.

Is this interesting? I'd like to contribute but I don't know where to start.

Regards Per Öberg

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