Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:07:09 +0200 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: Symbios and BIOS (was: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license) |
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:33:20AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > e.g. The symbios(*1)-SCSI-driver only shows devices enabled in its BIOS. > > This information is stored in a little NVRAM-chip(*2) and the driver > > uses this data, including bus-speed settings and the like. > > At least i (had/have*3) trouble with this "feature"! > > So why does my '875 card works fine in my PPC box? No BIOS ever wrote to its > NVRAM.
sanity-checking prevents the worst failures. And, for this case: AFAIR the "factory-default" is something like "everything enabled".
Bis denn
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