From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>,
Matt_Domsch@dell.com, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:01:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071216210122.23aa9cb6@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49547705@web.de>
> > But that is not the point. Problem is not widely known, likely happens
> > with very old BIOSes and people who use those systems should be
> > knowing more than simply booting back to Win98.
>
> i don`t see any relation to what a user knows and what kind of system of what age he is using.
Its much much uglier than that alas. All the cases I've traced down have
been buggy bioses on add in cards not the system BIOS - the edd hang
actually moved with the controller card.
So it is useful to know.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-16 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-16 21:04 devzero
2007-12-16 21:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2007-12-16 19:19 devzero
2007-12-16 19:11 devzero
2007-12-16 19:59 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-12-16 20:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-17 23:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-17 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-18 0:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-18 0:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-16 15:34 devzero
2007-12-16 17:34 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-12-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22 1:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 1:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22 1:57 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22 2:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22 2:41 ` Andi Kleen
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