Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 19 Oct 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > That was it. We needed to preset the accessed bit... > > The Intel docs say it should work from a rom if we do that, and it does! > > well, that's interesting. This is new behavior that is documented to work > this way, but never did before. > > I love it.
Ron the P6 manual mentions it as well, and documents it working that way on everything but the i386. It says you can fake a READY signal to the processor after a write to the ROM. Which is probably how most earlier motherboards/chipsets are wired. Eric