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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: standard_io_resources[]
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Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:13:05AM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> > >Isn't that a job of the device drivers?
> > Well most of those resources are present on every PC motherboard.
> 
> I still can't see a reason for allocating it before the device drivers
> could do that.
> 
> Any suggestions? Anyone?

If you write into those resources and they are absent, bad things
sometimes happen.  So, they are always added to the reserved-resource
list.  I already had this argument with Linus :)

	Jeff


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