From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:47:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:47:13 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:62052 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:47:01 -0400 To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: David Grant , Greg Ward , bugs@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "hde: timeout waiting for DMA": message gone, same behaviour In-Reply-To: <20010921134402.A975@gerg.ca> <20010921205356.A1104@suse.cz> <20010921150806.A2453@gerg.ca> <20010921154903.A621@gerg.ca> <20010921215622.A1282@suse.cz> <20010921164304.A545@gerg.ca> <20010922100451.A2229@suse.cz> <20010922110945.B678@gerg.ca> <20010924103544.A1572@suse.cz> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 24 Sep 2001 12:37:32 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20010924103544.A1572@suse.cz> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vojtech Pavlik writes: > The PnP stuff is for ISA PnP cards. If you don't have those, it's > irrelevant. When "PnP OS Installed" is set to "No", the BIOS does the > ISAPnP initialization. If it is set to "Yes", it skips that step. Linux > prefers to have the ISAPnP cards pre-initialized, though it can do it > all by itself. "PnP OS Installed" applies to PCI as well as ISA PnP. The rule is something like all possible boot devices must be initialized but that is all. Eric