On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Marcus Gossner wrote:
The IRQ assignment can't be done in the operating system. It depends on the wireing on your board and therefore it is done in BIOS. You can check the IRQ assignment with your original BIOS:
So I have to disagree. If the OS can figure out what motherboard it is, then it ought to be able to do the assignment
You can't seriously suggest that the operating system should be able to detect the motherboard type automatically! While in *your* application, you could hard code the motherboard setups into Linux, this is generally Not A Solution.
Marcus put it best: "IRQ assignment can't be done in the operating system". And this is for a simple reason: operating systems generally can't be hard-coded to a particular motherboard. And THERE IS NO WAY to automatically detect a motherboard type. NONE. NADA. CAN'T GO THERE. The BIOS, since it is going to be *glued* to the motherboard, is a much more reasonable choice for hard coding... - To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@freiburg.linux.de with 'unsubscribe openbios' in the body of the message