RE: 2.3.20 will not boot (PCI problem)

Michael Cummins (mjcumm@isa.mim.com.au)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:41:21 +1000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@transmeta.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 1999 10:14
> To: Alex Nicolaou
> Cc: Tim Waugh; Martin Mares; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: 2.3.20 will not boot (PCI problem)
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Alex Nicolaou wrote:
> >
> > Why not do it both ways? If the BIOS and the kernel disagree, log a
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> > whom the kernel's method is incorrect.
>
> It's not about "when you disagree"..
>
> If the BIOS is buggy and you call into it, the machine will
> crash. Hard.
> There is no way to recover gracefully.
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> But I don't want to have something as critical as PCI scanning be
> dependent on something that is known to be unreliable. Doing
> it by hand
> may be painful too, but at least we can fix the bugs and we
> can analyze
> what goes wrong when it is done by hand.
>
> Linus

I bet you wish the bug reports generated from the buggy bioses problem ended
up in the BIOS manufacturer E-mail box, not yours.

Bit hard to write a standard into an kernel/operating system if the
manufacturers themselves can't follow standards!

Congratulations on doing so well despite the limitless hardware variation
that exists.

Thanks to all the hard workers out there,
Michael Cummins
(IBM PC-compatible? Should have been IBM PC-standard!)
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