Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:31:11 +0100 | From | Gunther Mayer <> | Subject | Re: Guest section DW: "Re: [PATCH] Fix floppy io portsreservation |
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Even if yours are affected you are unlikely to be wanting to enable PNPBIOS > support in the kernel for them. And as long as you don't do that everything > will continue to work as before my patch. The work around for this would be > for the PNPBIOS driver in the kernel not to reserve ports 0x3f0 and 0x3f1 > on systems without a PNPBIOS. Thus on all recent systems PNPBIOS would take > over 0x3f0 and 0x3f1
This is a misunderstanding.
Compiling PNPBIOS into the kernel does _not_ mean 0x3f0 will be reserved.
So the legacy floppy ports are not a PNPBIOS issue on any machine.
- Gunther
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