Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Apr 1996 07:48:06 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 1.3.80 setup.S change prevents booting. |
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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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