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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>
Cc: ataraid-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE HPA
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:57:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125687427.30867.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62b0912f05090210441d3fa248@mail.gmail.com>

On Gwe, 2005-09-02 at 19:44 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> The current default is causing grief because dmraid doesn't work, grub
> doesn't work and other userspace apps probably breaks too.  Users have
> to google and post to mailing lists just to get things to work (... if
> they could, which would require eg. a kernel option, but anyway).

You've show what - one obscure case with grub of an issue installers
already know about. dmraid is experimental anyway so submit fixes.

> The other way round, users would have to google to find the kernel
> option that claims the HPA area

And to find why their fs just choked, their computer no longer runs and
their files are lost. At which point they may not even be able to use
google.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-02 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87941b4c05082913101e15ddda@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <200508300859.19701.tennert@science-computing.de>
2005-08-30 15:52   ` Greg Felix
2005-08-30 16:16     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-30 17:05       ` Alan Cox
2005-08-31  0:30         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-30 16:38     ` Alan Cox
     [not found]       ` <87941b4c050830095111bf484e@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-02  7:27         ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 13:05           ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 13:33             ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 14:35               ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-02 16:24                 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 17:05                   ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 17:44                     ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 18:04                       ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-02 18:09                       ` Peter Jones
2005-09-02 18:59                         ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 19:14                           ` Peter Jones
2005-09-02 20:22                             ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 21:14                               ` Peter Jones
2005-09-03  0:05                                 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-03 23:31                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-07 14:52                                   ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-03  0:03                               ` Pekka Pietikainen
2005-09-02 18:57                       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-02 17:57                     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-02 14:50               ` Alan Cox

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