From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:03:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:02:55 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:15365 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:02:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5CBFC5.7E11E5A@transmeta.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:02:13 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rdunlap CC: Linus Torvalds , Kai Germaschewski , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20 In-Reply-To: <3A5CBAE3.ACDD2494@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > 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... > I certainly would appreciate feedback. I'm probably going to have to release a new version of SYSLINUX which will use that method, too. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/