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Huang, Ying wrote:
> Known issues:
> 
> - The hd0_info and hd1_info are deleted from the zero page. Additional
>   work should be done for this? Or this is unnecessary (because no new
>   fields will be added to zero page)?
> 

For backwards compatibility, they should be marked as there for the
short-medium term so we don't reuse them for whatever reason.

	-hpa