[ltp] hw configuration issues_¡PS2.EXE,_adiós!

[Thomas Hood]

--- Thomas Hood <jdthood2@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 
> Answer to self: RTFM (in this case the Plug-n-Play HOWTO).

It seems that the way that PS2.EXE does configuration
of devices is by calling the PnP BIOS.  Now that we have
the tools to call the PnP BIOS ourselves, we don't need
PS2.EXE any more, and hence, ¡PS2.EXE,_adiós!

Now for a rhetorical question.  Why doesn't the isa-pnp
driver have a mode of operation wherein it uses the PnP
BIOS to do its work?  Then there would be just one 
interface that drivers would have have to use: they would
all talk to isa-pnp, which could be configured to do PnP
configuration itself, or could be configured to let the
PnP BIOS do its dirty work and report back the results.
I think I'll investigate this question a bit more and 
perhaps I'll ask it on linux-kernel.

Thomas

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