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 forgot to ask people to give this a whirl. I assume it fixes
> the APM problems for Kai.
> 
> It definitely won't fix the silly Olivetti M4 issue (we still touch bit
> #2
> in 0x92). We'll need to fix that by testing A20 before bothering with
> the
> 0x92 stuff. Alan, that should get fixed in 2.2.x too - clearly those
> Olivetti machines can be considered buggy, but even so..
> 
> Who else had trouble with the keyboard controller?

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 <too small to measure by my wrist watch>.

Kai, you reported that your system was OK with 2.4.0-test12-pre6.
Does that mean that it's OK with 2.4.0-final also?

Comments?  Should we be merging Peter's int 0x15-first patch with this?
And test for A20-gated after each step, before going to the next
method?  Get that working and then backport it to 2.2.19?
Have their been any test reports on Peter's last patch?  I didn't see
any, but if that should be the goal, I'll give it a whirl.

I'd like to see this applied to 2.2.19.  At least changing the long
delay so that it doesn't appear that Linux isn't going to boot...

Thanks,
~Randy