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Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
To: mochel@osdl.org (Patrick Mochel)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:26:39 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I don't believe that Win2k does it (it's not from the PnP family, is it?).
> But, I don't doubt that XP does it on contemporary hardware. It requires
> ACPI support in the BIOS. And, ACPI enumerates all of the legacy devices
> in the system.

PnPBIOS also enumerates the legacy hardware that can be known about (ie
is soldered down)

Alan
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