From: Brian O'Donoghue (Brian.ODonoghue at domain kbs.ie)
Date: Tue 25 Jun 2002 - 17:34:41 IST
Ken Humbord.. asserted that
>About a year or so ago, I gave up compiling my own
kernels.
What? Aw come on without being derieded for trying to be leet, isn't
compiling the kernel one of the domain's of growing your unix beard? Plus
for example if you had a problem with hardware/drivers drivers/hardware how
do you go about debugging it if not by rebuilding your kernel yourself (n)
times until you make some headway or decide you have baldy hardware.
Par example a udma hdd and the piix3 ide controller. Solution 'turn off use
dma by default in kernel config', but all I could find on the internet was
nonesense about hdparm, thus had I not played around with my kernel config I
might still have an embarressing error message on boot about disabeling dma.
Of course if it were FreeBSD then I could have really been uber-leet and
just set ata.blah.dma = off in some random config file... I tell ya, when
chicks here me go on like this..... 'well a gentleman never tells' ;-)
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