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Re: contradiction in boot/i386/pc/boot.S


From: Pavel Roskin
Subject: Re: contradiction in boot/i386/pc/boot.S
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:24:25 -0500

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 11:50 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> boot_drive_check:
>         jmp     1f      /* grub-setup may overwrite this jump */
>         testb   $0x80, %dl
>         jnz     1f
>         movb    $0x80, %dl
> 1:
> 
> However, if 0x80 is really "the only possible boot drive", that means the
> test is pointless and can be replaced with:

No, I was wrong, I misread "testb" as "cmpb".  Values such as 0x81 are
valid and should be preserved.

Please ignore my previous message.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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