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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:52:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reply-To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9
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On 22 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > Actually its to cover the case where you have a floppy drive, and you've
> > > booted the kernel from a floppy disk, and the kernel doesn't have the
> > > floppy driver built in.  It turns the floppy drive off, cause there's
> > > nothing else to do that.
> > 
> > this should then be done by the floppy boot code?
> 
> Most definitely. On legacy free boxes there may not even be a floppy
> controller present, and on non x86 your guess is as good as mine at
> where the fdc lives.

non-x86 was covered via an #ifdef, but legacy-free is not covered.

	Ingo

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