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SubjectRe: [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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