Re: the size restrictions for FAT and ext2fs stage1.5

[Gordon Matzigkeit]

>>>>> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:

 >> I didn't mean to imply that I wouldn't bother to try at
 >> all... I'll definitely do my best to fit LBA support into the
 >> stage1, if it's possible.

 OY> Is LBA support so diffcult? I don't know LBA well, so I'm just
 OY> asking.

I don't know it well, either.  I have some preliminary code in
shared_src/asm.S, but it doesn't seem to detect LBA correctly (even
though I do things according to Ralf Brown's interrupt list).  It
probably won't ever work until somebody with thorough knowledge in
this area can look at it, or else I get access to a machine where I
can test things.

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