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Re: Inconsistent behaviour of "keystatus" in a waiting loop
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: Inconsistent behaviour of "keystatus" in a waiting loop |
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Tue, 19 May 2015 20:52:41 +0300 |
В Tue, 19 May 2015 19:35:34 +0200
"Arbiel (gmx)" <address@hidden> пишет:
> > Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. Yes, I see this behavior. The problem is,
> > on PC BIOS getkeystatus simply checks flags in BIOS Data Area and in
> > your first loop BIOS never gets chance to run and update these flags.
> > While in your second loop sleep actually polls for input characters and
> > so allows BIOS to set flags.
> >
> > I see two possible solutions.
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> > Brute force and easy one - add --milliseconds switch to sleep command
> > to minimize delay. Internally sleep is using milliseconds anyway. Care
> > to send patch to grub-devel?
> This solution will do it. However I don't know how to add the
> milliseconds switch to the sleep command.
OK, could you open bug report on
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=grub so it is not get lost.
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