Philip Blundell writes:
> as the console could. On platforms where the interrupt lines are fixed
> (NetWinder and CATS for example, but not EBSA-285) it can do everything.
Indeed - totally embedded machines like the NetWinder it is a good idea
since you know 100% what you're dealing with. However, when talking about
a plug in card, I'd rather not have 50 different initialisation themes in
the kernel.
> Also, experience shows that we tend to end up having code in the kernel to go
> through and fix up things that the console didn't do the way we wanted them in
> any case. We might as well not bother and just let the kernel do the whole
> lot in the first place.
I have two points here:
1. the kernel cannot possibly know the way the bus needs to be set up
in every case.
2. a freebios could set up the PCI bus how we wanted it in the first place,
while releaving the kernel of the task of knowing system X, Y and Z's
peculiarities.
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