> If one know his/her hardware enought to activate this extra set up,
> it may be best if he/she set up correctly the BIOS parameters instead of
> asking the kernel to set up these bits.
>
True if the BIOS is written correctly, but that is certainly also not true.
Besides, what about upgrades. Replacement Cyrix/AMD chips have useful features
that BIOSes often know nothing about.
John