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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:28:55 +0200
From: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: PnP BIOS + 2.4.9-ac16 = no boot
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:11:58PM -0400, Ion Badulescu wrote:

> > What about making a conditional on 'is_sony_vaio_laptop' here ?
> > (but you need to extends the conditionnal export of this variable 
> > from dmi_scan.c / i386_ksyms.c).
> 
> Well, the funny thing is, the same kernel doesn't boot on a Dell Inspiron 
> laptop either, if PNP is enabled -- and the oops is the same. So it's not 
> just Sony...

Maybe we'll need to test against something like 'pnp_broken' 
variable instead of is_sony_vaio_laptop in PnP drivers, and
add the callbacks in dmi_scan to initialize pnp_broken...

Stelian.
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