Subject: Re: Issue with /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/gatea20.c
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: tech-embed
Date: 06/22/2005 03:50:26
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> writes:
>
>>On FreeBSD it's enough to remove keyboard support from the kernel to
>>be able to boot devices that do not have it.
>
>
> That's probably not quite the right way to do it. We'd like GENERIC to
> work on such devices as well. The right thing is probably to do some
> sort of probe to determine if the A20 hack is impossible before trying
> it.
If this probe proves tricky, it may be worth adding a config option here.
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