From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roy Dragseth Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:08:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] disabling nics in efi. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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 interfa= ces=20 using the reserve boot option. If I only could figure out how to compute t= he=20 right addresses... r. --=20 The Computer Center, University of Troms=F8, N-9037 TROMS=D8, Norway. phone:+47 77 64 41 07, fax:+47 77 64 41 00 Roy Dragseth, High Performance Computing System Administrator Direct call: +47 77 64 62 56. email: royd@cc.uit.no