> stage LILO was loaded, it happily over-wrote part of the SMP config
> table sending the kernel into nirwana during boot (BTW The fix, although
> accepted by Werner, never made it into an official LILO release. SuSE
That shouldnt be possible - its checksummed
> Perhaps it was a generic Phoenix BIOS problem? At least Intel's SMP spec
> (v1.4) specifically allowed this setup. BTW Werner Almesberger also
Phoenix BIOS is allowed to do this. Totally so. The kernel however assumed
the EBDA would be <4K. So the combination triggered it
> > Free software is good at being reliable - but its a testing/review/fixing
> > scheme that is nothing like as effective at finding situations where the code
> > works for everyone currently but isnt quite to specification.
>
> Please don't get me wrong. I wasn't complaining about the things that
> happened in the past. I was merely trying to explain my (and our
> managers') impatience:
Im not taking it as a complaint. You asked how it managed to get missed, I
was trying to explain the quirks of free software testing/reliability
Alan
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