Re: The stability crisis

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:00:16 +0200


Hello,

> If you took a look at that floppy writer patch, it was _very_
> clever. It basically took machine down to real mode and then done I/O
> using bios. I think that floppy-oopser patch is safe (as long as ROM
> is ROM :-).

And as long as BIOS variables are ROM :-))

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Linux _is_ user-friendly.  It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly."

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