Re: [patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2001-01-11 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, rdunlap wrote: > Here's a patch to 2.2.19-pre7 that is essentially a backport of the > 2.4.0 gate-A20 code. > > This speeds up booting on my fast-A20 board (Celeron 500 MHz, no KBC) > from 2 min:15 seconds to . > > Kai, you reported that your system was OK with 2.4.0-test12-p

Re: [patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2001-01-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
I think the way to go is to do the INT 15-first; possibly augmented with a "test before even doing INT 15"... -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsub

Re: [patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2001-01-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
rdunlap wrote: > > Alan- > > Here's a patch to 2.2.19-pre7 that is essentially a backport of the > 2.4.0 gate-A20 code. > > This speeds up booting on my fast-A20 board (Celeron 500 MHz, no KBC) > from 2 min:15 seconds to . > > Kai, you reported that your system was OK with 2.4.0-test12-pre6. >

[patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2001-01-10 Thread rdunlap
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Right now this is my interim patch (to clean test11). The thing to > note is > > that I decreased the keyboard controller timeout by a factor of about > 167, > > while making the "delay" a bit longer. > > Oh, btw, I for