Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Feb 2002 18:40:00 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Guest section DW: "Re: [PATCH] Fix floppy io portsreservation |
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At 18:31 08/02/02, Gunther Mayer wrote: >Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > Even if yours are affected you are unlikely to be wanting to enable PNPBIOS > > support in the kernel for them. And as long as you don't do that everything > > will continue to work as before my patch. The work around for this would be > > for the PNPBIOS driver in the kernel not to reserve ports 0x3f0 and 0x3f1 > > on systems without a PNPBIOS. Thus on all recent systems PNPBIOS would take > > over 0x3f0 and 0x3f1 > >This is a misunderstanding. > >Compiling PNPBIOS into the kernel does _not_ mean 0x3f0 will be reserved. > >So the legacy floppy ports are not a PNPBIOS issue on any machine.
Excellent, in this case were my patch will always work and we are debating a non-issue and can stop here (unless I have broken any of the other architectures but I don't think I have). (-:
Anton
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