Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262117AbVBJOKs (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:10:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262122AbVBJOKs (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:10:48 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53973 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262117AbVBJOKo (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:10:44 -0500 X-Authenticated: #26200865 Message-ID: <420B6BA8.1040808@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:11:52 +0100 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040906 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Domsch CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: EDD failures since edd=off patch X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 22 Hi Matt, it seems the edd=off patch has caused some problems with some machines I have access to. They simply don't boot anymore unless I specify edd=foo. foo can be {off,skip,bar} so it seems the hang on boot is related to the parser not finding the parameter it is looking for. I looked through the code some days ago and it seemed to me that the register used to iterate through the command line buffer only got its lower 16 bit reset before calling into the BIOS. I don't have the code handy right now, but I can look later if the hints I gave are insufficient. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/