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To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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Patrick Mochel wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:31:25PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >  > > I suspect PnPBIOS knows for the 486. There is PnPbios code in 2.4-ac
> >  > > perfectly ready for a 2.5 merger
> >  > PnPBIOS is nasty, and I suspect it is not present/working on all
> >  > models, right?
> >
> >  For the most part it's fine, it just needs the floppy driver / ps2
> >  driver (and maybe some others) fixed up to not allocate regions
> >  that pnpbios already reserved. Other than these issues, it seems
> >  to be working well. It's certainly handled itself ok on all my
> >  test boxes (Even the weird compaq with the fscked up pnpbios --
> >  it claims to have pnpbios, yet when you call it, you get feature
> >  not supported return codes. cute.)
>
> Hey, speaking of PnPBios, is there a spec somewhere?

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/PnP/default.asp


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