On 02/27/2012 04:08 PM, Joshua C. wrote:
> 
> If so I'm not sure about it. We check the BIOS data area as defined
> for IBM PCs (1981), so a fair amount of user should benefit from the
> change. Those non-BIOS boots can set the numlock=0 and won't be
> affected by this. I think this isa lot easier to implement than doing
> it in the BIOS bootstrap code.
> 

Here is a patch to query the BIOS state properly; if you could fill out
the rest of the patch then we can merge this in easily enough.

	-hpa