> It there is a bug fix for Linux, it is much easier to patch the kernel
> tree. SetFunction() was used on the Amiga for fixing bugs in the
> closed source OS and for straping on new functionality.
That wasn't really the issue: the problem was that a lot of the important
libraries were in ROM (that is, the code was in ROM; the library struct &
jump table were copied to RAM IIRC, otherwise SetFunction() wouldn't've
worked). Certainly exec.library, intuition.library, dos.library were all in
ROM.
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If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.
-- Arthur Kasspe
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