Re: PATCH: Update for the serial driver.

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:09:47 +0100


On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:15:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Talk to Peter Anvin. He's doing this 32-bit bootloader thing that can
> actually do a complete re-link, and essentially give you all the
> advantages of modules with none of the disadvantages (ie no runtime
> overhead in the TLB etc).

IIRC, hpa doesn't like the multiboot standard stuff, so this is probably
irrelevant, but doesn't it allow something like this? I guess I need to go
away and read some docs..

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