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

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 08:00:35 EST


> > 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.
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