Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:10:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:09:57 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:65292 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:09:41 -0500 Subject: Re: modular floppy broken in 2.5.3 To: alessandro.suardi@oracle.com (Alessandro Suardi) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 21:22:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3C5DA20E.6D503E66@oracle.com> from "Alessandro Suardi" at Feb 03, 2002 09:48:14 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > It turns out this is due to the new PnPBIOS kernel config option: > > [asuardi@dolphin asuardi]$ grep PnPBIOS /proc/ioports > 03f0-03f1 : PnPBIOS PNP0c01 > 0600-067f : PnPBIOS PNP0c01 > 0680-06ff : PnPBIOS PNP0c01 > 0800-083f : PnPBIOS PNP0c01 > 0840-084f : PnPBIOS PNP0c01 > 0880-088f : PnPBIOS PNP0c01 > f400-f4fe : PnPBIOS PNP0c01 > > But since modular floppy was working before without setting any > ioport parameter I'm not entirely sure this is a "feature". Its a mix of fp and pnpbios things that need untangling. PnPBIOS should register the resource as not in use, floppy should allocate the right things not blindly reserve the wrong sized chunks - 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/