Re: Linux OS boilerplate

Tim Wright
2001-02-22T01:25:34Z

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 03:07:33AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> With linux-2.4 able to do a complete PCI bus setup it isn't as bad it used
> to be, but it's still pretty significant.

For an incomplete subset of chipsets. Serverworks doesn't work correctly for
a start (see the threads relating to having to kill the Serverworks fixup code
and rely on the BIOS to see all the PCI busses on larger systems). Of course,
this is due to Serverworks refusal to release documentation (yes, I've heard
the excuses regarding protection of IP), and it's a worrisome. What else are
we potentially failing to setup on this chipset ?

Tim

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