Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203141318130.9855-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Port ED is fine for a BIOS, which (by definition) knows what the
> motherboard devices are, and thus knows that ED cannot be used by
> anything.
>
> But it _is_ an unused port, and that's exactly the kind of thing that
> might be used sometime in the future. Remember the port 22/23 brouhaha
> with Cyrix using it for their stuff, and later Intel getting into the fray
> too?
>
> So the fact that ED works doesn't mean that _stays_ working.
>
It is, in fact, broken on several systems -- I tried ED in SYSLINUX
for a while, and it broke things for people.
-hpa
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