Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 07:31:25 EST

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Hi!

> > Case 5: 486 with both PCI and VLB, where ide is on the VLB?
> >
> > cases 4 and 5 are IMO hard, because it is difficult to know where it
> > really is... and I'm not sure current kernel knows it.
>
> I suspect PnPBIOS knows for the 486. There is PnPbios code in 2.4-ac
> perfectly ready for a 2.5 merger

PnPBIOS is nasty, and I suspect it is not present/working on all
models, right?
Pavel

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