[ltp] Alan Cox 2.4 PnP BIOS kernels

[S. Anthony Sequeira]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:42, Michael Hagemann wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:22:15 +0000 S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
> 
> > Is the PnP BIOS option absolutely necessary.  I see that Thomas Hood
> > uses
> > 2.4.23 (when I last checked).
> > 
> > If I upgrade, will I be able to use tpctl and/or pcmcia-cs?
> 
> There was a similar discussion recently.  You basically don't need the
> PnP BIOS support.  tpctl uses it's own interface to the BIOS (SMAPI).
> 
> The pnp-tools need the PnP support, but IIRC the only thing you can do
> with the pnp-tools that you can't do with tpctl is to make _permanent_
> changes to the configuration (I might be wrong, though...).
> 
> So if you don't use pnp-tools you don't need PnP BIOS.
> 
> 
> michael

Thanks Michael.  I'll go ahead then.
-- 
Tony