H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm rewriting the i386 setup code in C, instead of assembly, > and before I spend a very large amount of time translating > all the various card-specific probes, I want to ask the > following question... > > Does *anyone* care about these anymore?
Yes, booting Linux on old i386/i486 hardware is still very useful for forensic purposes and recovering important data. I've personally had to do this many times, and I'm sure others have as well. Booting is such a critical process that a user would be completely lost as to why it fails, especially if they can't see any output on the screen. I think it would be a shame to prevent Linux from running on these machines. Vlad __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - 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/