From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:50:26 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Leigh Brown , paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, barbieri@gmail.com Subject: Re: [0/9] Support for old IBM PReP boxes Message-ID: <20040730165026.GN16468@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20040729213319.GA5857@george.solinno.co.uk> <20040730154611.GL16468@smtp.west.cox.net> <20040730160848.GA12973@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20040730160848.GA12973@lst.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 06:08:48PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. A distro kernel would probably want it on by default (it makes more machines work than it breaks). As for runtime switchable, Leigh? -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/