Re: Linux should not set the "PnP OS" boot flag

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederman@uswest.net)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 20:08:21 EST


"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > Do you have any insite into what needs to be done so that the kernel
> > will automatically configure isa pnp devices?
>
> We already configure isapnp devices. We don't yet configure all the PnPbios
> devices

O.k. I'm getting more interested as I read this. So we have things like
superio chips and the like with configureable resources, (and possibly some
pci<->isa bridge resources that need to bec onfigured.)

Coming from the linuxBIOS side I'm interested as that will allow me to
rip out more code, from linuxBIOS. And I think it is only sane to report
such devices.

I don't know about the stock BIOS interfaces to those devices though. I'll
keep an eye on them and see what I can do. Hopefully within the next couple
of mounths I can start attacking this problem.

Eric

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