From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: PATCH: Kconfig for EDD
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:52:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040930175247.GA31128@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
EDD fails with ACARD scsi devices present (hang on the 16bit bios call at boot)
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.9rc3/drivers/firmware/Kconfig linux-2.6.9rc3/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.9rc3/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2004-09-30 15:36:07.507035472 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.9rc3/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2004-09-30 16:33:46.422200440 +0100
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@
Services real mode BIOS calls to determine which disk
BIOS tries boot from. This information is then exported via sysfs.
- This option is experimental, but believed to be safe,
- and most disk controller BIOS vendors do not yet implement this feature.
+ This option is experimental and is known to fail to boot on some
+ obscure configurations. Most disk controller BIOS vendors do
+ not yet implement this feature.
config EFI_VARS
tristate "EFI Variable Support via sysfs"
next reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-30 17:52 Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-30 18:36 ` PATCH: Kconfig for EDD Jeff Garzik
2004-09-30 18:38 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 18:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-30 19:02 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 20:04 ` Matt Domsch
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