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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, alan@redhat.com, david.balazic@hermes.si,
	hpa@zytor.com, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] EDD: add edd=off and edd=skipmbr options
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:11:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A3FBC4.5030609@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041123230001.GE30452@lists.us.dell.com>

Matt Domsch wrote:
> 
> Peter, Andi: I've built this for x86 and x86-64, and run this on x86.
> I'd appreciate your review of the assembly code, and suggestions for
> improvement, prior to my submitting it to akpm for 2.6.11.
> 
> EDD: add edd=off and edd=skipmbr command line options
>     
> New command line options
> edd=off     (or edd=of)
> edd=skipmbr (or edd=sk)
>  
> These are provided to allow Linux distributions to include CONFIG_EDD=m, yet
> allow end-users to disable parts of EDD which may not work well with their
> system's BIOS.

Sorry to nitpick this, but the doc. should include an
'=' sign like the ones before and after it:

  	edb=		[HW,PS2]
+
+	edd		[EDD]
+			Format: {"of[f]" | "sk[ipmbr]"}
+			See comment in arch/i386/boot/edd.S


in edd.S:
+	movb	$0, (EDD_MBR_SIG_NR_BUF)	# zero value at EDD_MBR_SIG_NR_BUF
+	movb	$0, (EDDNR)			# zero value at EDDNR

Such obvious comments aren't needed, even if they were just
moved from other places....

Rest of the .S code makes sense to me.

~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-24  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-23 23:00 [PATCH 2.6] EDD: add edd=off and edd=skipmbr options Matt Domsch
2004-11-24  3:11 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-11-24 10:39 ` Andi Kleen
2004-12-02 19:25 ` Matt Domsch

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