Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:56:54 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:33:05PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > 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*? :-)
Definitely. And multiply that with BIOS revisions.
> 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.
Not to me.
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