From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Leigh Brown <leigh@solinno.co.uk>,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
barbieri@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [0/9] Support for old IBM PReP boxes
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:08:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730160848.GA12973@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730154611.GL16468@smtp.west.cox.net>
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:46:11AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> OK. Thinking back to last time, I asked about being able to blacklist
> some machines Residual Data (since it's crap on some, but I don't have
> the dumps handy) and you mentioned that you'd like to do fixups on the
> data since there's a few cases where the data is mostly good, just with
> one or two incorrect things. And it doesn't look like either are
> here... yet.
>
> Could you do a 10/9 patch that adds a bit of help to the PREP_RESIDUAL
> config option along the lines of:
> "When this information is incorrect, it could lead to the machine
> behaving incorrectly. If this happens, please disable PREP_RESIDUAL and
> try again."
>
> And change the existing "Unless you expect to boot on a PReP system,
> there is no need to select Y." to "If you are running a PReP system, say
> Y here, otherwise say N."
As the residual support is runtime switchable can we also have a kernel
boot option? That way we can switch it off for distro kernels.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-29 21:33 [0/9] Support for old IBM PReP boxes Leigh Brown
2004-07-30 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-30 15:46 ` Tom Rini
2004-07-30 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-07-30 16:50 ` Tom Rini
2004-07-30 16:58 ` Leigh Brown
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