2006-05-20 02:52:57

by Chris Wedgwood

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Subject: [PATCH] EDD isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore

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Lots of people use this. Apparently RH has for over 18 months so lets
drop EXPERIMENTAL.


Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
index 1e371a5..4ea7044 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ menu "Firmware Drivers"

config EDD
tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
depends on !IA64
help
Say Y or M here if you want to enable BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive

2006-05-20 03:53:12

by Matt Domsch

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDD isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore

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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:52:55PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Lots of people use this. Apparently RH has for over 18 months so lets
> drop EXPERIMENTAL.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[email protected]>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> index 1e371a5..4ea7044 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ menu "Firmware Drivers"
>
> config EDD
> tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> depends on !IA64
> help
> Say Y or M here if you want to enable BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive

almost-ack. The tristate line needs (EXPERIMENTAL) removed please.

Thanks,
Matt

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Software Architect
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2006-05-20 04:06:23

by Chris Wedgwood

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Subject: [PATCH (take #2)] EDD isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore

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Oops.

Resend with Kconfig comment change too. It also occured to me that
!IA64 is a lousy check, EDD is really i386 and x86_64 only, it's
clearly not useful for ppc, alpha, etc.

Would anyone object to a chance for that too?

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Lots of people use this. Apparently RH has for over 18 months so lets
drop EXPERIMENTAL.


Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[email protected]>

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2006-05-19 19:54:23.152351261 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/firmware/Kconfig 2006-05-19 21:03:56.515687951 -0700
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
menu "Firmware Drivers"

config EDD
- tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk"
depends on !IA64
help
Say Y or M here if you want to enable BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive

2006-05-20 20:34:58

by Matt Domsch

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Subject: Re: [PATCH (take #2)] EDD isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore

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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:06:20PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Oops.
>
> Resend with Kconfig comment change too. It also occured to me that
> !IA64 is a lousy check, EDD is really i386 and x86_64 only, it's
> clearly not useful for ppc, alpha, etc.
>
> Would anyone object to a chance for that too?

No objection here. I'm only aware of it working on i386 and x86_64.

Thanks,
Matt

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Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & http://www.dell.com/linux
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