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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:54:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards Andi Kleen wrote: >> Not that the x86 BIOS is bad. It is nearly a marvel in it's simplicity >> and ubiquitousness, > > Simplicity? That must be why x86 motherbords are shipping with (compressed) > 8MB BIOS flash chips now. Very little of that is the actual BIOS, though. Most of it is generally QuickPlay, which tends to be a Linux system... -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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