Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | Sat, 05 Jan 2002 14:28:27 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> said: > Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>: > > Indeed. Something I'm trying to convey to Eric, but I don't think > > he realises just how many pooched BIOSen there are out there. > > His conservative estimate of '150 entries in the blacklist' > > is possibly off by an order of 10 times or more. > > Are there even 1500 distinct PC motherboard designs in *existence*? :-)
Perhaps not, but there are at least 10 official revisions of the BIOS for this motherboard (intel sr440bx), and this is just one out of a few dozen intel has. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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