Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:09:54 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> X86 and ((not PCI) or (not DMI) or DMI_ISA or BLACKLISTED => ISA_CARDS
You'd also need (not MCA) (not VLBUS) (not Other arcane non-ISA buses)
> A key point is that as ISA phases out (near future now), the blacklist > will stop growing. Ballpark guess is it will top out below 150 entries.
I showed you 4 examples of bad DMI tables found within 5 minutes of testing here. I'm one person. There's a lot of hardware out there, with a lot of broken BIOSes. (Yes, you have different bugs per BIOS, with sometimes a dozen or so revisions just for 1 board).
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