Re: contradiction in boot/i386/pc/boot.S

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:57:16PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> We can save 4 more bytes if we do "orb $0x80, %dl" unconditionally for
> the hard drives.  However, I'm not sure if there are BIOSes that pass 1
> in %dl and how critical it would be if it becomes 0x81.

I think the assumption is that if the BIOS passes 0x01, etc, it's
garbage and should be ignored completely.

> That's
> something I'll rather not do without seeing the original bug reports.

Same here.  Maybe Okuji will know..

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