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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?
Date: 14 Jan 2002 16:40:12 -0800
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Followup to:  <20020114232247.195bf441.spyro@armlinux.org>
By author:    Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> #2 Not all architectures have a problem with 'far' or 'near' calls, and
> frankly, I'm glad the kernels design isnt being crippled just to serve the
> fundamentally CRAP x86 architecture, for once.
> 

Especially since the x86 *ISN'T* one of the architectures with this
particular problem.  'far' and 'near' as used in this thread don't
refer to the x86 segmentation crud.

	-hpa
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