[ltp] Alan Cox 2.4 PnP BIOS kernels
S. Anthony Sequeira
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:29:16 +0000
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 22:13, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 22:42, Michael Hagemann wrote:
> > 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.
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Thanks, your response is very much appreciated. Time for beauty sleep
now. Up _very_ early for work.
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