Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices

Gunther Mayer
2002-02-07T18:34:59Z

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?