Some bioses have settings for a 'non PnP OS' or 'not windows 95' that cause
the BIOS to init and place all the cards.
On the PnP front Im getting quite interesting results. On the x86 at least
if I twiddle isapnp a bit so my copy does an mlock of itself, iopl and
cli for its ident phases it can initialise my troublesome board without
kernel help.
So it looks like what is needed for 2.2 to finish the job off is actually
only the same stuff pcmcia needs - that is as well as
request_irq(...)
free_irq()
[and DMA etc]
reserve_irq()
unreserve_irq()
so that the user PnP configurator can answer the question 'what irqs would
it be really dumb to put this PnP card on'.
Alan
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