On 01/25/2011 12:32 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
One more "is this bit of the BIOS code safe" concern that I have is that you'll be using the "write" path of the INT 0x13 code ... which isn't the path that is tested by booting ... it *ought* to be OK - but untested paths in BIOS seem to be broken paths all too often.
Not really... as others have noted, we reprogram the controller in a different mode, once the kernel starts.
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