Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > > Why on earth would you want to call PNPBIOS on AMD64 anyway ?
 > 
 > For the same reason normal PC's still like to: no technical reason, except
 > for the fact that system vendors like to hide bugs and quirks by having
 > magic stuff in ACPI or PnPBIOS to tell the OS "hands off" or "this is how
 > to route this strange irq".

But PNPBIOS is an ISA relic isn't it ?
No amd64 system I know of even has an ISA bus.

		Dave

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