[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> 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.

Anyway I have now committed this small change.  So we should have
fewer suprises when porting to new boards.

Eric

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