Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:41:45 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD |
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 06:22:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >Ok, that's a different argument than before. Ok. Although it's > >only a few bytes. > > > >I would lobby for any message at least contain the suggestion to try > >edd=off. That could save users a lot of time. > > The important thing is that there is a message before and after. The > rest can be dealt with by Google on in documentation. That's what the
That means every user needs to waste at least 5 minutes to google/read docs and be annoyed by someone's ads. Collective waste.
Just adding "Try edd=off if this hangs" is ~23 bytes and adding that should be hardly a problem even in your 32k. Or perhaps if you're more worried about code size than grammer "edd=off when hang" @)
-Andi
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