Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2002 00:03:16 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices |
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Hi!
> > > I suspect PnPBIOS knows for the 486. There is PnPbios code in 2.4-ac > > > perfectly ready for a 2.5 merger > > PnPBIOS is nasty, and I suspect it is not present/working on all > > models, right? > > For the most part it's fine, it just needs the floppy driver / ps2 > driver (and maybe some others) fixed up to not allocate regions > that pnpbios already reserved. Other than these issues, it seems > to be working well. It's certainly handled itself ok on all my > test boxes (Even the weird compaq with the fscked up pnpbios -- > it claims to have pnpbios, yet when you call it, you get feature > not supported return codes. cute.)
It is *BIOS*, and that makes me nervous.
Anyway, I guess that for old boxen, it is okay to just put ide onto /driver/legacy/XXX (and for new boxen probably too, we do not want special code calling PnPbios/PCI just to put drivers to the right place in the tree, right?) Pavel PS: I suspect that those southbridge-integrated IDE controllers are not *really* on PCI... They certainly do not use PCI IRQ A..D. -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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