Re: WSEMUL_DEFAULT instant hard reset on boot

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, der Mouse wrote:

> Thanks to a botch when playing with kernel configs, I discovered the
> hard way that setting WSEMUL_DEFAULT to a name that does not name an
> emulation the kernel has leads to an instant hard reset at boot -
> booter loads the kernel and bam, I'm looking at the BIOS POST screen.
> (This is with 5.1, but I suspect other versions will do similar
> things.)
>
> Seems to me picking almost anything else would be better - first
> emulation on the list, even, would be better than an instant reset.
> Thoughts?  Worth a PR?

Definitely worth a PR, IMHO


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