Re: your mail

H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-31T23:04:58Z

Followup to: <200105312037.WAA01610@kufel.dom>
By author: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> BTW, linux-kernel readers: anybody is a volunteer for making the kernel size
> counter 32-bit here? This would enable using the simple bootloader for
> greater kernel loading... (current limit is sligtly below 1MB)
> Possibly some 16/32-bit real mode code mixing would be necessary.
>

PLEASE don't go there. bootsect.S is fundamentally broken these days
(doesn't work on USB floppies, for example.) It should be killed
DEAD, DEAD, DEAD and not dragged along like a dead albatross.

-hpa
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