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SubjectRe: [ANNC] Linld 0.94 available
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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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