On Sunday 14 August 2005 09:47, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: > >Do you mean 80386? Of course, no. I don't have such an old CPU. > But some people use old PC like a home servers.
So? > Perhaps if we read a huge block of memory it will do the trick? Only if you prove that the current implementation does not work, I will consider it. I have already investigated how other systems deal with Gate A20. For example, Linux does not do such a thing, but nobody has reported that it does not work. > >BTW, why do you say 2 microseconds? Where does this come from? > > outb %al, $0x80 > In documentation it's written that it causes a wait of 1 microsecond Did you really read the code? GRUB tries to enable Gate A20 until it is enabled. What is wrong with this? > On the same page it's written that some laptops have the problem with > 0x0 and 0x100000 addresses. Perhaps we should move the test address? GRUB does not use such addresses. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
