Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:05:15 +0200 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Confused about 2.6 PnP support |
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Hi all :)
I'm on the way of upgrading to 2.6.x kernel, and since I don't have ISA cards (I don't even have an ISA bus in my mobo), I disabled ISA support in my config (CONFIG_ISA), but I've noticed that PnP support (CONFIG_PNP) depends on it :?
AFAIK, PnP, strictly speaking, has nothing to do with the PCI bus, but I think is common notation to talk about PnP referring autoconfiguration of PCI cards, and I want to know if I need to select PCI support for having my PCI cards correctly detected and configured (currently my BIOS does the work), or if the PnP support in kernel 2.6 is just for ISA cards. In addition to this, the PnP BIOS support (which I think I may need so Linux correctly gets the IO, IRQ and DMA settings for my parallel port) is marked as EXPERIMENTAL (at least in 2.6.5)
I want to know if I must tell my BIOS I don't have a PnP OS or if, on the contrary, I should tell my BIOS that my OS is not PnP (I only use Linux) and deselect PnP support (as well as ISA support) in my 2.6.x kernel. Personally, I don't mind setting 'Non PnP OS' in my BIOS and remove both CONFIG_ISA and CONFIG_PNP.
BTW, ¿does Linux support rebalancing of PnP bus resources or I better avoid conflicts...?
Thanks a lot in advance :)
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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