Re: boot2 patch, please test.

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:54:53 +0200
In message <200406011125.03166.jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Saturday 29 May 2004 05:21 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Some embedded boxes do not have the keyboard controller, and this
>> patch adds a timeout so they do not get stuck waiting for it to
>> become ready.
>>
>> Please test that this patch does not have any effect on normal
>> PC architecture machines.
>
>I'd prefer that you explicitly set %cx to a timeout value after the cli 
>instead of relying on its value being zero in the caller.

ENOMOREBYTES :-(

I guess the logical thing would be to inline it rather than have it be
a function, that saves the cx initializtion, the call and the return.

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