From: Roy Dragseth <royd@cc.uit.no>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] disabling nics in efi.
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:08:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805649@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805644@msgid-missing>
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 22:52, Alex Williamson wrote:
> The EFI driver has nothing to do with whether the NIC shows up
> to the OS. It only makes it unavailble from EFI, the hardware is
> still there. I don't know of any way to make the NICs not show up
> other than not loading the module.
So, I was indeed missing the point.
The only viable path seems to be preventing the kernel to probe the interfaces
using the reserve boot option. If I only could figure out how to compute the
right addresses...
r.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 21:39 [Linux-ia64] disabling nics in efi Roy Dragseth
2003-01-08 21:50 ` Joseph V Moss
2003-01-08 21:52 ` Alex Williamson
2003-01-08 21:58 ` Roy Dragseth
2003-01-08 22:08 ` Roy Dragseth [this message]
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