Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:20:57 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117 |
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On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 04:15:22AM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> True. But unfortunately we are stuck with lots of ISA cards and we > DO need to support them.
Any for the most part, we presently do support them.
> It's not that the BIOS is broken, it just don't have that > functionality. It's too old and there is no way to upgrade it.
If its old hardware, then you have to live within its limits. Just like I have boxes of 10 meg ethernet cards, because I can't upgrade them 100 Mbits.
Now, since you bios isn't PnP aware, you presumably don't need PnP to boot, so why isn't a userspace solution acceptable?
-cw
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