It is messy because there is no way to commit parameters passed to change
the contents of static initdata, iirc. However I need to think about this
more.
Cheers,
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Markus Kossmann wrote:
> On Saturday 05 April 2003 13:02, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > It is designed to allow you to overide a FastTrack BIOS that disables a
> > few items in pci-config space. Regardless if you have a FastTrack or
> > Ultra, if enabled the device can be registered. If you have a FastTrack
> > and want to use ata-raid by Arjan V. and not the OEM scsi binary driver,
> > you must enable the override. If you want to use the OEM scsi binary
> > driver with FastTrack, do not set the override. Ultra's do not care.
> > If they do it is a BUG!
> >
> Wouldn't it be better to have the CONFIG_PDC20XXX_FORCE option as kernel
> parameter , which is settable at boot time ?
> According to Murphys Law you either get a precompiled kernel with that option
> disabled but you want/have to use Arjans drivers. Or the Option is enabled
> but you prefer to use the driver from Promise.
> --
> Markus Kossmann markus.kossmann@inka.de
>
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
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