Re: A20 gate (was: KERNEL BUG: console not working in linux)

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 23:52:12 EST


Followup to: <D5E932F578EBD111AC3F00A0C96B1E6F07DBDD86@orsmsx31.jf.intel.com>
By author: "Dunlap, Randy" <randy.dunlap@intel.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Just curious: Are you (Alan?) saying this ("standard") based on the
> unpublished IBM PC specs (well, it was when I needed it around
> 1990; don't know about now ???). Or do you have a copy
> of it? They were mighty hard to come by, and I was working
> on a contract for IBM at the time (not at Intel).
>

There is nothing unpublished about them. They are old, but definitely
published. As far as System Control Port A, they were published in
the PS/2 reference manuals.

        -hpa

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