Re: Broken A20 gate handling (about GPL)

[Ludovic Drolez]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> In the case of the A20, I'm not sure how I want to implement it. It is not 
> that bad to use syslinux code, because we have our own alternative. However, 
> this code is very critical, and I prefer writing our own code. After all, my 
> opinion looks like the same as Marco. :p

Yes this code is critical, as you see flaws in this code makes grub unusable on 
new PCs (freeze without *any* error message). Since it's the most critical part 
of grub, why simply not use the most stable code available for A20 handling: the 
linux kernel ?

Moreover, IMHO, it makes no sense trying to rewrite such low level functions, 
since there are not hundreds ways of writing it !

Cheers,

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Ludovic DROLEZ