Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:29:01 -0400 (EDT)


You could boot dos (or freedos or whatever suits you)
Have the autoexec.bat run isapnptools
and then loadlin linux.

What's so wrong with modules?

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > In the end I found I had a choice of (2.3ish) doing the whole resource
> > stuff, or avoiding the resource stuff, which reduced to the "isapnp
> > tools needs a decent front end" problem not a kernel one.
>
> This of course is going to force users to make all drivers that require
> PnP to be kernel modules. Else how is isapnp going to be able to configure
> devices before the drivers start up.
>
> Icky yucky messy. Bleah. :-/
>
> -Dan
>
>
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