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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	len.brown@intel.com, gregkh@suse.de, trenn@suse.de,
	joachim deguara <joachim.deguara@amd.com>
Subject: Re: Recent x86-64 patch causes many devices to disappear
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:55:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605261255.27471.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4476D874.6060000@garzik.org>

On Friday 26 May 2006 12:29, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The problem is that most people cannot figure out how 
> > to disable this in the BIOS so we needed a way to make it boot
> > out of the box.
> 
> Agreed.

Do you use SCSI on your box? According to Joachim booting with 
segmentation on and not pci=noacpi SCSI is not seen. And that's the 
default setup on the machine which made it unusable.

> 
> 
> > Booting without PCI-X is better than booting with it.
> 
> May I suppose you mean "booting without PCI-X is better than not booting 
> at all" ?  Booting with PCI-X is obviously better.

Yes.


-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-26 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-26  9:53 Recent x86-64 patch causes many devices to disappear Jeff Garzik
2006-05-26 10:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-26 10:23   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-26 10:25     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-26 10:29   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-26 10:55     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-05-26 11:08       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-26 14:34         ` Thomas Renninger

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