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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, kai@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Subject: Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
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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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