Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNC] Linld 0.94 available | Date | 16 Jan 2002 11:10:29 -0800 |
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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."
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