[syslinux] [PATCH] memdisk: fix check for unchanged INT 15h handler in safeint mode

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Oct 15 08:47:09 PDT 2008


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sergey Vlasov wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu at altlinux.ru>
>> ---
>>  memdisk/memdisk.asm |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>>  This fixes the 2-year old typo, but is this check actually required?
>>  Does using real "int 15h" commands until something other hooks this
>>  interrupt really matter?
> 
> Unclear.  It might help certain virtualizers.
> 

On the other hand, we apparently haven't been doing this for years, so 
it might be better to leave it out based on the concept to stick to what 
we already have done.

I think I'll go with that school of thought...

	-hpa




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