Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:57:50 -0800
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm3
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:40:18 +1300, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net> wrote:

> direction to fixing this, perhaps something more like "0000:00:1d.7 EHCI: BIOS 
> handoff failed (BIOS bug?  Try disabling legacy USB support in BIOS if it is 
> enabled)"

I thought about this. However it seems that a blanket implication of BIOS
vendors would not be ethical. Certainly our code is not infallible, and
the handoff continues to improve.

I expect BIOS developers to stop providing legacy support eventually.
It's like the ISA bus, which seemed impossible to get rid of.

-- Pete
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