Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:33:05 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>: > Indeed. Something I'm trying to convey to Eric, but I don't think > he realises just how many pooched BIOSen there are out there. > His conservative estimate of '150 entries in the blacklist' > is possibly off by an order of 10 times or more.
Are there even 1500 distinct PC motherboard designs in *existence*? :-)
Think, Dave. The DMI standard dates from 1998. For there to be 1500 entries on the blacklist, someone would have to have been cranking out *500* PCI-capable, DMI-supporting motherboard designs a year each and every one of which lies about having ISA slots.
This seems...implausible. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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