Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Nov 26 2004 - 21:02:26 EST


On Sad, 2004-11-20 at 19:10, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> These kinds of things hopefully aren't all that common (there can't be a
> lot of extra hw required to follow the PCI spec _properly_), but if I were
> a hw designer, I'd connect such a chip to the PIRQ input, and just make
> the BIOS enable it automatically.

The PCI spec includes several such bits of magic itself remember -
notably on a PC the use of IRQ14 and IRQ15 by the IDE controller is not
via the PCI PIRQ routing.

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