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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
H. Peter Anvin
463c9a9f7d [x86 setup] EDD: add missing =m constraint
Add a missing =m constraint to the EDD-probing code, that could have
caused improper dead-code elimination.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-02 13:45:49 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
ff659d13ed [x86 setup] EDD: Fix the computation of the MBR sector buffer
Some BIOSes require that sector buffers not cross 64K
boundaries.  As a result, we compute a dynamic address on the
setup heap.  Unfortunately, this address computation was just
totally wrong.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-31 16:18:05 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
d13444a5a5 EDD probing code for the new x86 setup code
Probe EDD and MBR signatures, in order to make it easier to map
physical hard drives to BIOS drives.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:55 -07:00