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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Memory probe(s) in FreeBSD 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 14:25:16 -0800
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>Perhaps support
>for all old boot blocks should be dropped.  It is reasonable to require
>that the (interface) version number of the bootblocks is >= that of the
>kernel to reduce the number of cases.

   I strongly disagree with this, BTW.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project