Re: 1.3.80 setup.S change prevents booting.
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 07:48:06 +0300 (EET DST)
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