From: Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@gmx.net>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Guest section DW: "Re: [PATCH] Fix floppy io portsreservation
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:31:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C64196F.CBA321AE@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020208160020.027998a0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Even if yours are affected you are unlikely to be wanting to enable PNPBIOS
> support in the kernel for them. And as long as you don't do that everything
> will continue to work as before my patch. The work around for this would be
> for the PNPBIOS driver in the kernel not to reserve ports 0x3f0 and 0x3f1
> on systems without a PNPBIOS. Thus on all recent systems PNPBIOS would take
> over 0x3f0 and 0x3f1
This is a misunderstanding.
Compiling PNPBIOS into the kernel does _not_ mean 0x3f0 will be reserved.
So the legacy floppy ports are not a PNPBIOS issue on any machine.
-
Gunther
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2002-02-08 16:12 ` Guest section DW: "Re: [PATCH] Fix floppy io ports reservation Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-08 18:31 ` Gunther Mayer [this message]
2002-02-08 18:40 ` Guest section DW: "Re: [PATCH] Fix floppy io portsreservation Anton Altaparmakov
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