From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 13 2:34: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CC337B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 02:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail533.nifty.com (mail533.nifty.com [202.248.37.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EDC43E4A for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 02:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bland@mail.ru) Received: from mail.ru by mail533.nifty.com (8.12.4/3.7W-02/25/02) with ESMTP id g6D9VabJ021294; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:31:37 +0900 Message-ID: <3D2FF378.5040500@mail.ru> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 18:31:36 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Gratton Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootstrap loader + USB keyboard no-worky [was: Do VIA 83C572 USB controllers suck or is it just me?] References: <3D2CFC98.8010803@quack.kfu.com> <3D2E1E39.4070601@quack.kfu.com> <3D2E3A2D.50303@vee.net> <3D2E8A14.7040004@mail.ru> <3D2FCABA.9010804@vee.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, Mike Gratton wrote: > It's interesting, however, that the MBR bootloader(?) - as opposed to > the bootstrap loader - works fine. And I assume that it accesses the > keyboard in a similar fashion. That's correct. boot0 uses same BIOS calls. The difference is it's very small program which runs in real cpu mode and do not need a20 line open, boot2 runs in protected mode and needs it but the method used to do this is not always correct. -- Alexander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message