Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:08:46 +0200 (GMT+0200) | From | Craig Schlenter <> | Subject | Re: 1.3.80 setup.S change prevents booting. |
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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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