cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/cdboot cdboot.s

[Wes Peters]

On Apr 11, 2006, at 5:18 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 12:39 am, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> sobomax     2006-04-11 04:39:29 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/boot/i386/cdboot cdboot.s
>>   Log:
>>   When enabling A20 put upper limit on amount of time we wait for the
>> keyboard controller to get ready (65K x ISA access time, visually  
>> around 1
>> second). If we have wait more than that amount it's likely that the
>> hardware is a legacy-free one and simply doesn't have keyboard  
>> controller
>> and doesn't require enabling A20 at all.
>>
>>   This makes cdboot working for MacBook Pro with Boot Camp.
>
> You'll probably need to do the same for boot1 and I think BTX.
> Alternatively, you should see how the loader is handling A20 and
> do that in the various boot programs instead (I think there's a PR
> somewhere about using a BIOS call instead of frobbing the keyboard
> controller directly that supposedly fixes things like USB keyboards
> in the loader.)

Do you think this might also be the problem that prevents FreeBSD  
from booting on Virtual PC for Mac OS/PPC?  That's been frustrating  
me for months, but I haven't had time to do anything about it.

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Wes Peters                                                      
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