Re: 2.2.10 won't boot w/o keyboard

Pekka Riikonen (priikone@poseidon.pspt.fi)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:51:30 +0300 (EEST)

> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk writes:
> > Can you build 2.2.10 with the 2.2.9 arch/i386/boot/setup.S and let me know
> > if it then works. That will confirm your suspicion if its correct
>
> I did, and it boots fine. The problem definitely lies with the setup.S
> changes.
>
Niku, test this small patch. Apply it in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot
folder by

patch < empty_8042.patch (or what ever)

See if this helps or not.

Pekka

the patch:

--- setup.S Tue Jun 22 16:46:09 1999
+++ setup.S.new Tue Jun 22 16:46:41 1999
@@ -757,11 +757,11 @@
! with no keyboard attached...

empty_8042:
- push cx
- mov cx,#0xFFFF
+ push ecx
+ mov ecx,#0xFFFFFF

empty_8042_loop:
- dec cx
+ dec ecx
jz empty_8042_end_loop

call delay
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
test al,#2 ! is input buffer full?
jnz empty_8042_loop ! yes - loop
empty_8042_end_loop:
- pop cx
+ pop ecx
ret

!

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