Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:22 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RESUBMIT] [PATCH] Use BIOS Keyboard variable to set Numlock |
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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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