On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 00:44, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:
>
> > Actually its to cover the case where you have a floppy drive, and you've
> > booted the kernel from a floppy disk, and the kernel doesn't have the
> > floppy driver built in. It turns the floppy drive off, cause there's
> > nothing else to do that.
>
> this should then be done by the floppy boot code?
Most definitely. On legacy free boxes there may not even be a floppy
controller present, and on non x86 your guess is as good as mine at
where the fdc lives.
Alan
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