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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 03:18:51 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:15:36PM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> as soon as I change:
>
> int main() {
> 	iopl(3);
> 	outb(6, 0xcf9);
> 	usleep(100);
> 	outb(6, 0xcf9);
> 	return 0;
> }
> (the above gave a command prompt
> with numerous tries)

Ok, so it's not that straghtforward. Sigh. There's various hacky 
workarounds we could do here, but Windows doesn't seem to do them so I 
lean towards suspecting that there's something wrong with our keyboard 
controller reboot mechanism. I'll try doing some more tracing.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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