Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name

Andrew Mileski (dmtech@magi.com)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:02:04 -0500 (EST)

>Personal experience is its very clever, very elegant but the number of PnP
>bios bugs we are finding (both ISA and PCI) mean its a positive hazard. The
>I2IT compile engine has its PnP cards set to non PnP because otherwise the
>bios assigns stupid interrupts to things.

The good part is you can COMPLETELY ignore the BIOS choices,
and reconfigure.

The BIOS is *really* only responsible for getting an OS
running. After that, the OS can do as it pleases.

Assigning resources to non-BAID (boot aware IPL device) stuff
is an optional part of the PnP BIOS spec.

I suppose we should be grateful for EEPROMs :-)

-- Andrew E. Mileski --
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