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Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 05:46:12 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards
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> Not that the x86 BIOS is bad.  It is nearly a marvel in it's simplicity
> and ubiquitousness, 

Simplicity? That must be why x86 motherbords are shipping with (compressed) 
8MB BIOS flash chips now.

-Andi