[ltp] hw configuration issues ¡PS2.EXE, adiós!

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On 24-Feb-01 Thomas Hood wrote:
> 
> --- 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.
> 

Cool - I'm sorry, I have very little time at the moment
I'm working porting LINUX to my Apple Airport 
(WirelessLAN) Base Station...

---Till

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