From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: borasah@netone.com.tr (Bora Şahin)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some Doubts About bootsect.S & Setup.S
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:07:06 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302091307.h19D76wV000674@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <010f01c2d038$0dbe0c60$0100a8c0@bora> from "=?iso-8859-9?B?Qm9yYSDeYWhpbg==?=" at Feb 09, 2003 02:23:02 PM
> 1)
> sread: .word 0 # sectors read of current track
> head: .word 0 # current head
> track: .word 0 # current track
>
> Since a diskette can have at most 2 heads, 80 tracks and 36 sectors per
> track, why are these not bytes instead of words especially since space is at
> such a tight premium in this code?
See:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104250711526623&w=2
> Someone(H. Peter Anvin) tell me that these codes was old and broken, and was
> getting nuked in 2.5.
The in-kernel bootloader will almost certainly not be in 2.6.
Personally, I think it would be good to replace it with some kind of
monitor, but I don't think anybody else would agree with me :-)
John.
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