14 Jan
2003
14 Jan
'03
2:55 a.m.
On 14 Jan 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
I am not totally certain that it is buggy. There are places this can be reasonable behavior. Experience with etherboot shows that normally boot devices at least have bus master set by the BIOS.
I can see how they would do this, but I still find it worrisome. I would guess that if the BIOS knows about a particular device it sets bus master, but it is hard to say. I would still not want to take standard BIOS behavior as a rule, given how many things that standard BIOSes seem to get wrong :-)
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