Re: PnP BIOS + 2.4.9-ac16 = no boot

From: Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 04:28:55 EST

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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:11:58PM -0400, Ion Badulescu wrote:

> > What about making a conditional on 'is_sony_vaio_laptop' here ?
> > (but you need to extends the conditionnal export of this variable
> > from dmi_scan.c / i386_ksyms.c).
>
> Well, the funny thing is, the same kernel doesn't boot on a Dell Inspiron
> laptop either, if PNP is enabled -- and the oops is the same. So it's not
> just Sony...

Maybe we'll need to test against something like 'pnp_broken'
variable instead of is_sony_vaio_laptop in PnP drivers, and
add the callbacks in dmi_scan to initialize pnp_broken...

Stelian.

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