Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:20:07 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alex wrote:
> Maybe the best thing would be to supply the kernel a "large" _textfile_ > with all the hardware the user definitely has (at such-and such > irq/dma/io); the textfile could be the output resilt from a > "userfriendly" hardware-detection tool that lists all categories of > hardwares etc. and has - generally - a large hardware database.
Think about ancient hardware (Yes theres lots of it still in use) These beasts had jumpers to set IRQ/DMA etc, and this was not detectable from software until PNPISA arrived on the scene.
You're still going to need user interaction for a lot of these.
"But Microsoft doesn't" isn't an argument any more either, they dropped support for really ancient hardware a long time ago.
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