From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:31:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:31:10 -0500 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:59922 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:30:59 -0500 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200101151930.f0FJUTC254802@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce To: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:30:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl (Maciej W. Rozycki), randy.dunlap@intel.com (Dunlap Randy), hpa@zytor.com ('H. Peter Anvin'), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3A633716.9EA1FDF5@transmeta.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at Jan 15, 2001 09:44:54 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin writes: > "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> URRRK. I get a feeling these specs are either there to make life extra >>> difficult for programmers, because the people that design them are too >>> stupid to tie their own shoes, or because they want nothing but M$ >>> factory-installed to work. >> >> The page is titled "PC DESIGN GUIDE - For the Microsoft Windows >> Family of Operating Systems," so what do you expect? > > Kind of says it all, doesn't it? It looks like we let Microsoft fill the design guide void. If you were to write "PC DESIGN GUIDE - For the Linux Operating System" and a pile of test code, then there would be an alternative to point people at. Complaining is pretty useless. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/