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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNC] Linld 0.94 available
Date: 16 Jan 2002 11:10:29 -0800
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Followup to:  <200201160910.g0G9AdE10817@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
By author:    Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I believe this workaround really should be placed in kernel:
> some day we will meet BIOS with same breakage!
> 

As I already explained to Denis in private email:

a) It's not "BIOS breakage"; it's standard behaviour for DOS'
   HIMEM.SYS.  LOADLIN must have dealt with it, I don't know through
   what exact method.

b) If we put this in the kernel, real systems will break.  This isn't
   a "maybe", it's a "definitely."

	-hpa
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