On 01/25/2011 12:32 PM, Tony Luck wrote:

One more "is this bit of the BIOS code safe" concern that I have is that
you'll be using the "write" path of the INT 0x13 code ... which isn't the
path that is tested by booting ... it *ought* to be OK - but untested paths
in BIOS seem to be broken paths all too often.

Not really...  as others have noted, we reprogram the controller in a 
different mode, once the kernel starts.

	Jeff