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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:13:58 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
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Subject: Re: ok, which wise guy did this?
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:47:35AM -0500, jamal wrote:

> Can anyone give justification for this?

different bioses enumerate devices differently?

> Regardless of justification can we have some form of backward
> compatibility flag?

can you check if the bios is enumerating the devices the same way the
kernel presents them?


  --cw
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