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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Why on earth would you want to call PNPBIOS on AMD64 anyway ? > > For the same reason normal PC's still like to: no technical reason, except > for the fact that system vendors like to hide bugs and quirks by having > magic stuff in ACPI or PnPBIOS to tell the OS "hands off" or "this is how > to route this strange irq". But PNPBIOS is an ISA relic isn't it ? No amd64 system I know of even has an ISA bus. Dave - 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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