Re: Possible PCI subsystem bug in 2.4

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 4 May 2001 18:04:40 +0100 (BST)


> Seriously. With the general attitude of distrusting BIOS's I have
> been amazed at the number of things linux expects the BIOS to get
> right. In practice windows seem to trust the BIOS much less than
> linux does.

It becomes more and more obvious over time exactly why. One problem however
is that windows gets away with this because many vendors ship random extra
gunge for their box with the system. We dont yet have that power

Alan

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