Re: 2.2.18pre4 won't boot on i686

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 10:54:25 EST


> How do you get zero setup functions? There are things that are quite
> unconditional, like the "root=" one just before "checksetup()". Same goes
> for initcalls.
>
> (Or does 2.2.x copy the setup stuff without copying any of the regular
> _users_ of those setup functions?).

2.2 doesnt move existing users. Its a nice way to handle 2.4 API drivers in 2.2
and encourage people to write to the 2.4 API thus making life happier for
the future, however moving the old ones risks changing initialisation order -
and that way be dragons

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