Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Steven A. DuChene" <> | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:08:12 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PnP BIOS -- bugfix; update devlist on setpnp |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:35:34AM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 04:10, Steven A. DuChene wrote: > > OK, I tried this with the Intel STL2 motherboard I also have and I got > > a similar error when trying to load the correct i2c bus module when the > > PnPBIOS stuff is compiled into the kernel. > > Understood. > > I'd just like to reiterate that my patch isn't the cause > of your problem. It's just that my patch doesn't address > your problem. IIUC.
Yes, I understood that from the start of all of this but you seemed to be be the only person messing with the PnPBIOS code so I thought you might be interested in this annomoly. I appreciate the info/help you have provided so far.
> > I provided a "workaround patch" before. Can you continue > to use that for the time being? >
Yes, but according to these latest results that work around of skipping a particular ioport would have to be different for each motherboard with this problem. There must be a better way to do this.
> I'd like to make a promise that I'll submit a new patch > soon that will address your problem; however I don't yet know > exactly how to go about addressing it. >
Perhaps someone else can provide us a hint or two as to where to start. :-) -- Steven A. DuChene sad@ale.org linux-clusters@mindspring.com sduchene@mindspring.com
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