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SubjectRe: 1.3.80 setup.S change prevents booting.
In response to Hans Lerman's query about the changes to setup.S in 1.3.80 ...

> > On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > It does indeed fix a latency problem, but only on alpha machines (which
> > > called that routine with interrupts disabled for simpler assembly code).
> > > I changed the x86 asm sources to do it that way too (see the setup.S part
> > > of the 80-patch)
> > >
> > > Linus

I think Linus was referring to the changes to entry.S (and the associated
change softirq.c) here rather than setup.S (which has the disk reset code
in 1.3.80). Linus?

--Craig


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