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Date:      Thu, 02 Mar 1995 13:35:25 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot probe_keyboard.c 
Message-ID:  <199503022135.NAA00152@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Mar 95 13:00:19 PST." <199503022100.NAA07440@freefall.cdrom.com> 

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>wpaul       95/03/02 13:00:17
>
>  Modified:    sys/i386/boot/biosboot probe_keyboard.c
>  Log:
>  Some people have complained that they were unable to boot the
>  Feb. 10th snapshot. The keyboard probe in the bootblock seems to
>  have been singled out as the cause of these problems, so I've beefed it
>  up alittle. This pushes us right up to the edge of the size limit:
>  the second stage boot is now 7152 bytes in size, just 8 bytes under
>  the wire. On the other hand, the new probe now does almost exactly
>  what syscons does, so hopefully this will do the trick. It seems
>  to work properly on my hardware, but then so did the old probe.

   This is going to be a problem...there are some (other) bugs that I need to
fix that will require some bytes themselves.

-DG



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