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Hello,

> One reason 'flags 1' isn't the default is that this forces
> use of the host controller before the interrupts are turned on.
> This piece of code is really dodgy and used to have problems
> on some platforms.  It seems somewhat better behaved these days.
Yeah, it also tends to screw up my harddisk numbering because a USB drive gets detected before the SCSI controller - a general solution for this won't be trivial I guess, especially not for generic kernels with lots of drivers.

> What I'd like to see is the question for root device (etc.) moved
> so that it happens after the kernel threads are started.  I've
> not checked if this is easy.
Agreed. I've never looked at this code, but it seems to ask for a root path right before trying to load init but apparently there's a little more happening in between - shouldn't be /that/ hard to figure out.

have fun
Michael

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