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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Ilpo Ruotsalainen wrote:

> Please note that I don't know of a way to determine if IDE-doubler is
> present or not on runtime - DO NOT TRY TO BOOT MISCONFIGURED KERNEL as
> it will most probably hang, crash, burn and eat your breakfast.

I don't like this. To make it part of the mainstream, this should be
investigated. Some bit pattern will be different, I hope.

> Should probably add a boot flag to enable/disable this, as it would be
> good if we could ship INSTALL/GENERIC kernels with the code in but
> disabled by default. Of course if anyone can come up with a way to
> determine if an IDE-doubler is present, that is even better.

You could always register shutdown callbacks that do a reset by sending a=
=20
command - hm, is there any? Where's my IDE book?

Regards,
	-is
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