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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:17:20 +0100 (CET)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>
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Subject: Re: XP PCI Contamination, GURR (Re: Care?)
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> It appears the folks up in redmond have succeeded in having the BIOS
> people default disable PCI resources.  Since XP will reject, or assume a
> device is in use should the BAR's be allocated, the various archs may need
> to have a broader setup table or a more generic ruleset.
> Any thoughts on how best to address good hardare, which the BIOS does not
> setup per redmond-rules.

Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that ACPI will play a part here.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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