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From: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@gmx.net>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 19:32:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C62C82D.74C9D712@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202070922460.25114-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>

Patrick Mochel wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:31:25PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >  > > I suspect PnPBIOS knows for the 486. There is PnPbios code in 2.4-ac
> >  > > perfectly ready for a 2.5 merger
> >  > PnPBIOS is nasty, and I suspect it is not present/working on all
> >  > models, right?
> >
> >  For the most part it's fine, it just needs the floppy driver / ps2
> >  driver (and maybe some others) fixed up to not allocate regions
> >  that pnpbios already reserved. Other than these issues, it seems
> >  to be working well. It's certainly handled itself ok on all my
> >  test boxes (Even the weird compaq with the fscked up pnpbios --
> >  it claims to have pnpbios, yet when you call it, you get feature
> >  not supported return codes. cute.)
>
> Hey, speaking of PnPBios, is there a spec somewhere?

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/PnP/default.asp



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-07 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-05 17:39 driverfs support for motherboard devices Pavel Machek
2002-02-05 18:11 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-02-06  7:28   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-02-05 18:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-05 18:43 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-05 20:47   ` Russell King
2002-02-05 22:46     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-02-05 23:06       ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-02-05 23:30         ` Alan Cox
2002-02-05 23:25           ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-05 23:08       ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-05 23:17         ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-02-06 12:22         ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-06 23:34           ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-07 13:03             ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-07  0:38           ` Alan Cox
2002-02-07 12:31             ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-07 13:23               ` Dave Jones
2002-02-07 17:26                 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-07 17:28                   ` Dave Jones
2002-02-07 18:32                   ` Gunther Mayer [this message]
2002-02-07 23:03                 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-06  7:33   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-02-06  7:24 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-02-06 12:16   ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-06 20:54   ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-07 20:21     ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-07 18:18 Thomas Hood
2002-02-07 18:28 ` Patrick Mochel

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