Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang | Date | 19 Nov 2000 17:22:09 -0800 |
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Followup to: <E13xfQ1-0003CR-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Try reserving ports 0x300-0x31f on the kernel command line > > ("reserve=0x300,0x20"). > > > > I'm surprised isapnp uses a port in such a commonly used range, > > though. > > It seems to be a combination of two bugs. The one I posted a patch for and > something odd that is taking port 0x279 before the pnp probe is run, which > suggests a link order issue. Although in truth _nobody_ should be claing > that anyway >
It seems to me that it would be better to initialize all the (non-PnP) ISA cards first, and have them claim their preferred ranges. Now you can pick the PnP isolate port out of what is left, and also have a much better idea of what is available.
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