Re: Symbios and BIOS (was: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license)

Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-04-30T11:07:13Z

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:33:20AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > e.g. The symbios(*1)-SCSI-driver only shows devices enabled in its BIOS.
> > This information is stored in a little NVRAM-chip(*2) and the driver
> > uses this data, including bus-speed settings and the like.
> > At least i (had/have*3) trouble with this "feature"!
>
> So why does my '875 card works fine in my PPC box? No BIOS ever wrote to its
> NVRAM.

sanity-checking prevents the worst failures. And, for this case:
AFAIR the "factory-default" is something like "everything enabled".

Bis denn

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