Re: [Etherboot-developers] isapnp

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Hello ken,

kusn> Been playing a bit with the standalone isapnp module Timothy Legge just
kusn> hacked. There's this old IBM machine with an onboard CS8920 here. After
kusn> a couple of hacks to start the scan at 0x203 and to slow down the
kusn> checksum bit acquisition algorithm, I can get it to detect the CS8920
kusn> entry.

kusn> Unfortunately it won't be any use for now, because the Linux driver
kusn> doesn't support PnP anyway, there a comment to the effect "please turn
kusn> off PnP".

I'm not sure about it, but could etherboot assign the card an io/irq
combination so that it is initialized /so far/ when entering Linux
boot?

Best regards,
 Anselm                            mailto:an...@ho...