From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
kai@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Subject: Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:05:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A2D9F03.7642B802@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E143TKU-0000AS-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Okay, here is my latest attempt to find a way to toggle A20M# that
> > genuinely works on all machines -- including Olivettis, IBM Aptivas,
> > bizarre notebooks, yadda yadda.
>
> Can I suggest a slightly different hammer. Flip the A20 via the keyboard
> controller and set the timeout to say 1 second. If that fails then kick the
> 0x92 stuff ?
I think that's pretty much the one remaining plan.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-06 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-05 23:30 That horrible hack from hell called A20 H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-06 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-06 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-06 1:26 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-06 0:21 ` Kai Germaschewski
2000-12-06 0:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-06 15:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-12-06 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-06 1:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-06 1:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-06 1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-06 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-06 2:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-08 10:33 ` Riley Williams
2000-12-06 10:16 ` Kai Germaschewski
2000-12-06 1:25 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-06 2:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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[not found] ` <fa.enh20bv.1pkea3o@ifi.uio.no>
2000-12-06 12:43 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2000-12-06 13:01 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-06 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
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