From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can not boot with CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y on i686
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:05:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB11605.4080405@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9971003221844k6ce67f40k69981ff92f29f20b@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/22/2010 06:44 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> I had a similar issue today, wasted a morning try to get either -rc1
> or -rc2 to boot on my 32-bit desktop here,
> until I worked out that the default for this option is to be on.
>
> I suggest CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM be default n for now.
>
> Not sure why it was merged as default y.
>
Because it was only a "chicken bit" to allow for debugging in case/when
something broke (which it has, indeed, allowed.)
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 13:12 Can not boot with CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y on i686 Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-03-20 18:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-23 11:35 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-03-24 4:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-24 9:04 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-03-26 8:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-26 12:10 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-03-26 12:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-03-26 18:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-23 1:44 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-29 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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