Messages in this thread | | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: Blind-access patch for Linux 1.3.x | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:22:48 +0100 (MET) |
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> I'm the most uncomfortable with the changes to the bootsector. We only > have so many configuration bytes available, and using a full byte for > the blind option seems to not be the best use of that resource.
You don't even have to use the boot sector for this. As illustrated in the bzImage+initrd patch, putting configuration data into setup.S also works very well.
- Werner
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