Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:43:50 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, fastboot@lists.osdl.org,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> So I will ask again, as I did when Andrew first pointed this in my
> direction.  What code path in the kernel could possibly care if we
> disable the i8259 after we have disabled all of the other hardware in
> the system.

This may be a foolish question, but, are there possibly any code paths
in the *BIOS* that could care?

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

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