Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc3-mm2] EDD: use EXTENDED READ command, add CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MBR

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:16:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > This also adds CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MBR to eliminate reading the MBR on
> >  > each BIOS-presented disk, in case there are further problems in this
> >  > area.
> > 
> > 
> >  Build fails on x86-64:
> > 
> >  [...]
> >     SYSMAP  System.map
> >     SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
> >     AS      arch/x86_64/boot/setup.o
> >  In file included from arch/x86_64/boot/setup.S:536:
> >  arch/i386/boot/edd.S:17: macro names must be identifiers
> >  make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/setup.o] Error 1
> >  make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> 
> hm, works OK here.
> 
> Is it missing config.h?

No, that's pulled in by setup.S which #includes edd.S, on both i386
and x86_64.  Jeff, is it the parens around CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MBR on that
line somehow?


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