linux-kernel - Re: [RESUBMIT] [PATCH] Use BIOS Keyboard variable to set Numlock

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Message-ID: <4F4D1E6A.5000200@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:22 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
CC:	"Joshua C." <joshuacov@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESUBMIT] [PATCH] Use BIOS Keyboard variable to set Numlock

On 02/28/2012 10:32 AM, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Asking the BIOS is as correct as querying the memory location (defined
> to have same result), but more expensive.

Not quite, in reality; it is more likely to work on systems which 
implement various kinds of bypass schemes.  The key aspect of this, 
though, is that this is done on a BIOS path and not by groping a memory 
location which may not even be initialized on non-BIOS systems.

	-hpa
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