Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:46:21 +0000 (GMT) |
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> One of our engineers is busy adding PnP to our ISA WAN board. He thought > the system was quite nice. After reading the specs from Intel, I also > thought is was a good system. Why do you think its useless? I would > be very interested in any pitfalls you are aware of.
Personal experience is its very clever, very elegant but the number of PnP bios bugs we are finding (both ISA and PCI) mean its a positive hazard. The I2IT compile engine has its PnP cards set to non PnP because otherwise the bios assigns stupid interrupts to things.
Alan
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