Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 9 May 2001 18:16:55 +0100 (BST)


> The only way a motherboard BIOS would know if the PCI BIOS used polling
> methods instead of interrupt methods is if it was a built in device. For all

Such as the motherboard IDE ?

> for all bootable devices on the system, regardless of PnPOS settings. Name
> one concrete example of a motherboard BIOS that doesn't and I'll recant.

I agree it is unlikely, but then so is a wrong $PIRQ table..
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