brent
Thomas Molina wrote:
>
> The really frustrating part of all this is that the BIOS makers and
> motherboard manufacturers seem to be non-responsive on this issue. My
> attempts to email the responsible organizations have elicited either no
> response, or unhelpful responses. The prevailing attitude seems to be,
> "It works for Windows, so we don't care."
>
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Your BIOS is what is wrong. Apparently the BIOS protected mode interface
> > is really a "Windows interface" and doesn't follow the rules: when Linux
> > calls into it with a different segment setup than Windows does, the BIOS
> > gets confused and does something illegal.
>
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