Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrew Mileski <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:02:04 -0500 (EST) |
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>Personal experience is its very clever, very elegant but the number of PnP >bios bugs we are finding (both ISA and PCI) mean its a positive hazard. The >I2IT compile engine has its PnP cards set to non PnP because otherwise the >bios assigns stupid interrupts to things.
The good part is you can COMPLETELY ignore the BIOS choices, and reconfigure.
The BIOS is *really* only responsible for getting an OS running. After that, the OS can do as it pleases.
Assigning resources to non-BAID (boot aware IPL device) stuff is an optional part of the PnP BIOS spec.
I suppose we should be grateful for EEPROMs :-)
-- Andrew E. Mileski -- -------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:dmtech@magi.com http://www.redhat.com/~aem/ "The best programmers are lazy", so I'm told. I haven't gotten around to seeing if it is true or not though.
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