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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Morgan Christiansson wrote: |
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> You could let the user enable/disable it before booting, like this: |
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> grep no_dma /proc/cmdline>/dev/null || enable_dma() |
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> or the opposite |
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> grep no_dma /proc/cmdline >/dev/null && disable_dma() |
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> Some more advanced syntax could be added too, such as no_dma=hda,hdb but |
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> that's problably overdoing it. Shouldn't there be a kernel option for |
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> this in the first place anyway? |
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I didn't know that you could parse kernel options like that. Thanks for |
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the tip. :) |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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