Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 06:19:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 06:18:53 -0500 Received: from druid.if.uj.edu.pl ([149.156.64.221]:54276 "HELO druid.if.uj.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 06:18:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:18:12 +0100 (CET) From: Maciej Zenczykowski To: Alan Cox Cc: Thomas Hood , Subject: Re: 2.4.12-ac3 floppy module requires 0x3f0-0x3f1 ioports In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Well here you have it... > > W98SE reports the FDC at 0x3f0..0x3f5 and 0x3f7 > > Its absolutely correct. 0x3f6 isnt floppy. That I suspect is what > is causing the problem because it tries to grab 0x3f6 in Linux No Linux doesn't grab 0x3f6 - what it grabs is 0x3f0-0x3f5 and 0x3f7 - exactly as reported by w98 - however 0x3f0-0x3f1 have already been reserved by the pnpbios code, since they are listed in the bios as motherboard resources, while 0x3f2-03xf5 and 03xf7 are listed as floppy -> the problem is that the floppy reserves ports that it does not need (in fact it could skip reserving 0x3f3 also...) - 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/