Re: XP PCI Contamination, GURR (Re: Care?)

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 08:17:20 EST

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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> It appears the folks up in redmond have succeeded in having the BIOS
> people default disable PCI resources. Since XP will reject, or assume a
> device is in use should the BAR's be allocated, the various archs may need
> to have a broader setup table or a more generic ruleset.
> Any thoughts on how best to address good hardare, which the BIOS does not
> setup per redmond-rules.

Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that ACPI will play a part here.

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