Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:28:55 +0200 | From | Stelian Pop <> | Subject | Re: PnP BIOS + 2.4.9-ac16 = no boot |
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:11:58PM -0400, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > What about making a conditional on 'is_sony_vaio_laptop' here ? > > (but you need to extends the conditionnal export of this variable > > from dmi_scan.c / i386_ksyms.c). > > Well, the funny thing is, the same kernel doesn't boot on a Dell Inspiron > laptop either, if PNP is enabled -- and the oops is the same. So it's not > just Sony...
Maybe we'll need to test against something like 'pnp_broken' variable instead of is_sony_vaio_laptop in PnP drivers, and add the callbacks in dmi_scan to initialize pnp_broken...
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