Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:57:32 +0100 (CET) | | From | Dave Jones <> | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Are there even 1500 distinct PC motherboard designs in *existence*? :-) > Think, Dave. The DMI standard dates from 1998. For there to be 1500 > entries on the blacklist, someone would have to have been cranking out > *500* PCI-capable, DMI-supporting motherboard designs a year each and > every one of which lies about having ISA slots.
- Laptops. Lots of vendors, multiple product lines. - prebuilt systems with custom boards from Dell/Compaq. - The obvious motherboard vendors (ABit, Asus, Tyan, Soyo etc etc) - Vendor reference boards from AMD, VIA, SiS, ALi etc etc. - The seemingly endless cheap no-name boards from Taiwan. - Mulitple versions of BIOSen for all the above. Some with good DMI/some bad/some bad for different reasons etc.
Still think that '150' systems sounds right ? Dell alone have probably achieved that in their product line over the last three years.
And whilst DMI is a dying standard, its still present in a lot of new boxes, and will probably still continue to for some for a while.
-- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs
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