Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:46:21 +0000 (GMT)
> One of our engineers is busy adding PnP to our ISA WAN board. He thought
> the system was quite nice. After reading the specs from Intel, I also
> thought is was a good system. Why do you think its useless? I would
> be very interested in any pitfalls you are aware of.
Personal experience is its very clever, very elegant but the number of PnP
bios bugs we are finding (both ISA and PCI) mean its a positive hazard. The
I2IT compile engine has its PnP cards set to non PnP because otherwise the
bios assigns stupid interrupts to things.
Alan