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--- quotes [2012/07/20 17:43]
mcb30
+++ quotes [2012/07/20 17:59]
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 === 2012-18-07 ===
-''<Sedorox> also.. holy crap, I've never seen a computer netboot that quick before''
+  <Sedorox> also.. holy crap, I've never seen a computer netboot that
+            quick before
 (in response to some recent [[http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/07bc73e|TCP/IP tweaks]])
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 === 2012-04-20 ===
-''From: Andrew Bobulsky''
+  From: Andrew Bobulsky
-''%%I have to ask... are you an alien with magical powers?%%''
+  I have to ask... are you an alien with magical powers?
 (posted to the [[http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-April/001417.html|mailing list]] upon discovering the newly rewritten [[http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/2a0154d|Realtek driver]])
+=== 2009-08-08 ===
+  <mcb30> At the point you're talking about, the system is not fully
+          initialised.  On many systems, the memory map is not yet valid.
+          If running normal BIOS-level code is marked with "Here be dragons",
+          running during POST is marked with "Here be huge, ugly, vindictive,
+          sociopathic dragons with a mean sense of humour"
+(during a GSoC 2009 progress meeting, discussing ideas for handling [[http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/06a8398|large ROM images]])