Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117

Zlatko Calusic (Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr)
27 Aug 1998 04:43:36 +0200


Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 04:15:22AM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>
> > True. But unfortunately we are stuck with lots of ISA cards and we
> > DO need to support them.
>
> Any for the most part, we presently do support them.
>
> > It's not that the BIOS is broken, it just don't have that
> > functionality. It's too old and there is no way to upgrade it.
>
> If its old hardware, then you have to live within its limits. Just
> like I have boxes of 10 meg ethernet cards, because I can't upgrade
> them 100 Mbits.
>
> Now, since you bios isn't PnP aware, you presumably don't need PnP to
> boot, so why isn't a userspace solution acceptable?
>

Simple. I don't like modules. :)

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