Re: [PATCH][RFC] AMD Elan patch

From: Christer Weinigel (wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 20:10:24 EST

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> The reason to use the BIOS first is to give the platform vendor a
> hook to deal with platform-specific issues, and God knows there are
> plenty of those when it comes to A20.

Well, the Elan SC4x0 doesn't have a lot of issues, everything having
to do with A20 is on the chip itself, so it would take a really brain
damaged design to mess this up. :-)

/Christer

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