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   Re: drivers   
   11 Jul 21 23:05:34   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   Actually, why can't the firmware have its own SD drive?   
   Those can be overwritten lots of times.   
      
   And why didn't they make the MBR have a signature of   
   66AA to indicate 16-bit mode UEFI-style, 77AA to   
   indicate 32-bit mode UEFI-style and 88AA to indicate   
   64-bit mode UEFI-style?   
      
   That way the firmware doesn't need to mandate and   
   have knowledge of the FAT format.   
      
   It would have been great to have 7c00 entered in PM32.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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