Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:12:33 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: boot option for CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MBR? |
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:45:34AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:35:58PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > [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. > > > > Yes, option parsing before entering protected mode is ugly, > > but the vga setup code does it, too. > > > > What do you think? > > I'd love it. I hadn't done it as I thought it would be ugly, and so > far I could blame buggy BIOSes for the delay. If you want to work up > a patch, I'll gladly review and apply something that does such.
But would this actually be useful for the cases where EDD has been broken so far ? AFAIR, the bootparam parsing happens /after/ we do the 16-bit EDD asm foo.
Dave
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