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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@puffin.external.hp.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Thomas Marteau <marteaut@esiee.fr>,
	"parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org" <parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Second Draft of the help for the kernel options
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 21:48:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110080348.VAA24289@puffin.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> of "Mon, 08 Oct 2001 00:31:47 BST." <20011008003147.A6105@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 32-bit PDC
> CONFIG_PDC_NARROW
>   Turning this option on enables support for 32-bit firmware when running
>   a 64-bit kernel.  You should select this option if you have a machine
>   from the C160-J2240 era.

s/machine/workstation/
I'm pretty sure all 64-bit capable servers properly handle
PDC calls in wide mode. PAT PDC supports a few calls in
narrow mode (for boot loader) but the rest must be in wide mode.

Note that IODC generally requires narrow mode.
(Superdome IODC is different - but I don't recall exactly how).

BTW, I prefer Matthew's rewrite over the Thomas' proposal.
No offense intended thomas - thanks for submitting the original.

grant

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-08  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-01 23:16 [parisc-linux] Second Draft of the help for the kernel options Thomas Marteau
2001-10-02 15:23 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2001-10-02 17:32   ` Grant Grundler
2001-10-03  8:57     ` Thomas Marteau
2001-10-07 23:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-08  3:48   ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2001-10-08 14:44     ` Thomas Marteau
2001-10-08 14:58       ` Matthew Wilcox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-02  6:12 Jurriaan Kalkman
2001-10-02  8:44 Jurij Smakov
2001-10-02  9:38 ` Richard Allen

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