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SubjectRe: 1.3.80 setup.S change prevents booting.


On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Hans Lermen wrote:
>
> Yes, I also wondered about that piece of code. However, this is what
> Linus wrote in a reply to an other posting, ... and my coments to that:
>
> > 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)

"setup.S" should be "entry.S" above.. Sorry for the confusion. And the
BIOS reset code is gone in my sources..

Linus


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