Re: yenta_socket hangs sager laptop in kernel 2.4.6-> PNPBIOS life saver

Alan Cox
2001-08-23T12:58:38Z

> > Before PnPBIOS can go mainstream we'd have to generate a detailed list
> > of buggy bios signatures
>
> Why? It shouldn't harm if disabled, so IMHO it should be fine when
> flagged "experimental" and with a warning label about broken bioses in
> Configure.help ...

We will see what happens. Certainly if someone wants to provide pnpbios code
patches for -ac that grab and reserve the motherboard resources from the PCI
code go ahead.