Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | | Date | Thu, 03 Jan 2002 10:35:46 -0300 | | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> said: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Mike Castle wrote: > > I never got the impression that DMI was going to be the exclusive way of > > obtaining information, but rather, as a supplement. > > In this case though, it's not just bad, it's exceptionally bad. > > Taking the 5 boxes I currently have powered up as test cases.. > > Old quad ppro > - Wierd compaq thing, no DMI tables. So won't do a thing here. > > Athlon (one of the original ones), no ISA slots > - Correct DMI tables. > > Vaio laptop > - Reports what is probably its PCMCIA slot as an ISA slot > > Cyrix III box, no ISA slots > - Reports 4 slots present > > K6 box, with ISA slots > - Reports none. > > 1 in 5 gets it right. Are the odds really worth the hassle > just to keep Aunt Tillie happy ?
I'd wagger Aunt Tillie doesn't run Linux on Ye Olde Coffepot, but on a new, PCI-only machine. So this is doubly silly... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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