Floppy detection probems with 6.2

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Thu Apr 19 12:54:14 UTC 2007


On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:57, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : That'd be a nice fall back but it surely it can't be too hard to reserve
> : some memory for stuff like this?
>
> I think that there is a way...  We only need ~20k for this...

Is it perhaps that the loader puts the kernel low down in memory or something?

(Wild guess..)

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