Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:35:58 +0100 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | boot option for CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MBR? |
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Hi Matt,
[please CC: me on replies] having had problems (inifinte hang on boot) with some Fujitsu Siemens Scenic computers when EDD was enabled, I asked myself if it would be possible to add a boot option edd=nombr and possibly also another boot option edd=off to the EDD code in the kernel. These would correspond to CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MBR and CONFIG_EDD, respectively. That way, distributors could use the benefits of enabled EDD on working machines and provide customers with the ability to switch off EDD on broken machines, all with the same kernel. Yes, option parsing before entering protected mode is ugly, but the vga setup code does it, too.
What do you think?
Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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