Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263033AbUK0B7A (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:59:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262897AbUK0Bqr (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 20:46:47 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:10692 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263031AbUKZTi3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:38:29 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device) From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Adrian Bunk , Len Brown , Chris Wright , Bjorn Helgaas , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <20041115152721.U14339@build.pdx.osdl.net> <1100819685.987.120.camel@d845pe> <20041118230948.W2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> <1100941324.987.238.camel@d845pe> <20041120124001.GA2829@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1101313614.2434.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:26:55 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 15 On Sad, 2004-11-20 at 19:10, Linus Torvalds wrote: > These kinds of things hopefully aren't all that common (there can't be a > lot of extra hw required to follow the PCI spec _properly_), but if I were > a hw designer, I'd connect such a chip to the PIRQ input, and just make > the BIOS enable it automatically. The PCI spec includes several such bits of magic itself remember - notably on a PC the use of IRQ14 and IRQ15 by the IDE controller is not via the PCI PIRQ routing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/