From: <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installation Gotchas
Date: Wed Feb 21 08:47:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010221084617.F6876@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A93CA70.1050103@linux.nu>; from mog@linux.nu on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +0100
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Morgan Christiansson wrote:
> You could let the user enable/disable it before booting, like this:
>
> grep no_dma /proc/cmdline>/dev/null || enable_dma()
>
> or the opposite
>
> grep no_dma /proc/cmdline >/dev/null && disable_dma()
>
> Some more advanced syntax could be added too, such as no_dma=hda,hdb but
> that's problably overdoing it. Shouldn't there be a kernel option for
> this in the first place anyway?
I didn't know that you could parse kernel options like that. Thanks for
the tip. :)
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-21 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-20 18:10 [gentoo-dev] Installation Gotchas Bruce A. Locke
2001-02-20 23:10 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-21 7:01 ` Morgan Christiansson
2001-02-21 8:47 ` drobbins [this message]
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