From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNC] Linld 0.94 available
Date: 16 Jan 2002 11:10:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a24j75$4fi$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201160910.g0G9AdE10817@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Followup to: <200201160910.g0G9AdE10817@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
By author: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I believe this workaround really should be placed in kernel:
> some day we will meet BIOS with same breakage!
>
As I already explained to Denis in private email:
a) It's not "BIOS breakage"; it's standard behaviour for DOS'
HIMEM.SYS. LOADLIN must have dealt with it, I don't know through
what exact method.
b) If we put this in the kernel, real systems will break. This isn't
a "maybe", it's a "definitely."
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-16 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-16 13:10 [ANNC] Linld 0.94 available Denis Vlasenko
2002-01-16 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2002-01-17 18:31 Denis Vlasenko
2002-01-17 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
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