Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:14:47 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones),
        Lionel.Bouton@free.fr (Lionel Bouton),
        alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel List)
In-Reply-To: <20020103040924.B6936@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Jan 03, 2002 04:09:24 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> You have my intentions backwards. What I'd like to be able to do is
> suppress ISA_SLOTS when there are detectably *no* ISA cards.  Unfortunately
> I have had it demonstrated that the DMI tables can give false negatives
> (false positives would not have been a showstopper).

Thats why I also suggested using lspci and looking for an ISA bridge.
If you have no PCI its probably ISA. If you have no PCI/ISA bridge its
very very unlikely to be ISA
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