From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: Recent x86-64 patch causes many devices to disappear
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:55:26 +0200
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On Friday 26 May 2006 12:29, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The problem is that most people cannot figure out how 
> > to disable this in the BIOS so we needed a way to make it boot
> > out of the box.
> 
> Agreed.

Do you use SCSI on your box? According to Joachim booting with 
segmentation on and not pci=noacpi SCSI is not seen. And that's the 
default setup on the machine which made it unusable.

> 
> 
> > Booting without PCI-X is better than booting with it.
> 
> May I suppose you mean "booting without PCI-X is better than not booting 
> at all" ?  Booting with PCI-X is obviously better.

Yes.


-Andi
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