Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:02:13 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20 |
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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 <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... >
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
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