Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:42:09 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On 3 Jan 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> Now, if we cannot reliably autodetect hardware, we should always make it > possible to override this manually, and maybe also inform the user that > we're not certain. But that's no excuse not to try to autodetect when the > user has *not* overridden us.
Autodetecting non-pnp ISA hardware safely is something of a black art. Numerous drivers just hang if you load them and the card isn't present, or there's another card which answers on the same port/address.
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