Query: PNP BIOS for 2.4.22

Query: PNP BIOS for 2.4.22

[Maciej Zenczykowski]

I'm searching for the/a PNP BIOS patch for 2.4.22 (or 2.4.23pre6) or any
recent 2.4 kernel.  It's included in the 2.4.22-ac series, however that's
with a whole lot of other 'cruft' - and I'd prefer a minimal clean
version.  I'm in the process of cutting it out of the ac patch - however
I'm worried I might miss something (some non-obvious dependancy).  I can't
seem to find any sources/patches on the (apparent) home page of the
project...

Thanks,

MaZe.

Re: Query: PNP BIOS for 2.4.22

[Adam Belay]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:30:09AM +0200, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> I'm searching for the/a PNP BIOS patch for 2.4.22 (or 2.4.23pre6) or any
> recent 2.4 kernel.  It's included in the 2.4.22-ac series, however that's
> with a whole lot of other 'cruft' - and I'd prefer a minimal clean
> version.  I'm in the process of cutting it out of the ac patch - however
> I'm worried I might miss something (some non-obvious dependancy).  I can't
> seem to find any sources/patches on the (apparent) home page of the
> project...
>
> Thanks,
> 
> MaZe.
> 

To my knowledge, the ac series has the only up to date pnpbios patch for 2.4.
You may, however, want to try the latest 2.6-test kernel which ships with an
improved pnpbios driver.  Is there a particular PnPBIOS feature you are looking
for in 2.4?  In other words which PnPBIOS services interest you?

Thanks,
Adam

Re: Query: PNP BIOS for 2.4.22

[Maciej Zenczykowski]

> To my knowledge, the ac series has the only up to date pnpbios patch for 2.4.
> You may, however, want to try the latest 2.6-test kernel which ships with an
> improved pnpbios driver.  Is there a particular PnPBIOS feature you are looking
> for in 2.4?  In other words which PnPBIOS services interest you?

I'm working on porting a hibernation patch from 2.4.9-34 (RH) to 2.4.22 
for toshiba laptops - which is based on pnpbios code.  Thus i'm pretty 
much interested in any pnpbios patch which a) works b) can be aplied with 
little fuss to 2.4.22 and c) doesn't contain extra frills (ie just 
pnpbios).  Unfortunately the latest RH kernels seem to have dropped 
pnpbios support and it's not present in the mainstream kernels, the best 
I've found so far is 2.4.22-ac - i'll probably strip it and see if it 
works (the stripping is done, will it work? we'll see tomorrow...)

Cheers,
MaZe.