Re: Next round of console patches
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:49:12 +1000
Gerd Knorr writes:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > Gerd: Is there a way to defer the call to this code until after boot? It's
> > > > getting called so early in the boot sequence that no messages are logged.
> > >
> > > No. You can comment out this line (I'll add a boot parameter to disable
> > > the mtrr thing if we can't pin down this), so it will never be called.
> >
> > Shouldnt it be a boot parameter to enable it ? Thinking in terms of
> > volume of usenet questions caused..
>
> Yes, of cource. Default should be a successful boot...
Well, I agree boots should be successful ;-)
However, I've just posted a patch which hopefully Linus will include
which fixes the problem. It should be quite safe to call mtrr_add() by
default.
Regards,
Richard....
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