Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:19:31 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:41:46PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
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> This is one reason I want /sys/dmi -- because if I *don't* see it, that > means I should assume the machine is old enough to take ISA cards. This > filter should make the blacklist relatively small -- we wouldn't have to > track even PCI motherboards older than the DMI standard.
If you find an MCA-bus, you can suppress most (but not all) ISA-cards too (some of the cards support MCA without having any extra MCA-related code in the drivers, such as the eexpress-driver, but I can help with such a list if necessary.)
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