Re: Linux-2.1.92 - Feature Freeze

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:44:15 +0100 (BST)


> Why is that? initrd is an excellent and very general mechanism.

ISAPnP can't ensure all the cycles it issues for configuration are
un-interrupted for one thing. The kernel side PnP identifies all cards
and leaves them ready so sysctl can set their address/memory/irq etc

It can be a module, it can be compiled in or out and it doesn't impact
drivers [ie it doesnt support 'live' reallocation of irq etc]

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