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Date:      Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:12:17 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: amd64/67745: boot fails on compaq presario r3000z
Message-ID:  <20041031061217.GA56606@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200410301940.i9UJeTkY081142@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200410301940.i9UJeTkY081142@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:40:29PM +0000, Nicolas Blais wrote:
>  How come the patch exists.... works perfectly.... and isn't being commited?

Because it removes code that does something on other machines.  No one
has done a good analysis of why this fixes booting on a few models of
laptops.  Thus we don't understand the consequences of this change.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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