Re: Blind-access patch for Linux 1.3.x

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.epfl.ch)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:22:48 +0100 (MET)

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> I'm the most uncomfortable with the changes to the bootsector. We only
> have so many configuration bytes available, and using a full byte for
> the blind option seems to not be the best use of that resource.

You don't even have to use the boot sector for this. As illustrated in
the bzImage+initrd patch, putting configuration data into setup.S also
works very well.

- Werner

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