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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:45:23 +0200
From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, viro@math.psu.edu,
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Subject: Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
 
> You would never even know the difference. You'd do a "make bzImage", and
> the default filesystem would just be embedded into the image. By default
> it probably doesn't need to do much - although things like the BIOS DPMI
> scan etc would surely be good to get rid of.
> 
> Why complain about that?

I am convinced.  I misunderstood, thinking there was a big change just
for
ACPI which I and many others don't use.  Thanks for clearing things up.

Helge Hafting
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