On Iau, 2003-06-05 at 12:05, David S. Miller wrote:
> I don't know how PnP OS plays into it, but the last time I dug into this
> deep dark area, the BIOS was expected to setup the cache line size for
> all PCI devices in the system.
With a non PnP OS the BIOS is supposed to have done a lot of the setup
for things like IRQ routing. With a PnP OS (and nowdays thats often not
even a selectable but a wired in property) the OS has to do a lot of
the work.
And then there is hotplug
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