Linus Torvalds wrote:
Things like: A20 gate, 15-16MB holes, i387 FP exception on irq 13 are totally pointless in this day and age. Things like the DMA controller are getting there, along with PS/2 keyboard support.
The latest Intel chipset I have (ICH9) is legacy free: no serial port and no PS/2 ports. I had to disable the Linux PS2 input drivers completely, just to get the thing to boot.
Whee, "progress". :) Jeff, digging out that USB debug cable cuz there's no serial - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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