Matthew Garrett wrote: > No, I don't think that the ordering of devices is a bug - the bug is > that we're assuming that the Linux device ordering bears some sort of > relation to the Bios device ordering, which is simply not true. Further,
Perhaps it is not a bug as far as the kernel is concerned; but it is definitely a bug in the context of Ubuntu installer, because it will result in unbootable systems for desktops with add-on PCI IDE controller cards. > I don't believe that there's any way we can make it true. We should be > parsing edd data instead, which lets us work out how the bios ordering > corresponds to PCI devices. However, for some reason EDD seems to have > been switched off in the Ubuntu kernels. Wenzhuo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
