"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> > might catch things like the serial port, but would also enable things like
> > laptop hotdock (and there's not much chance linux will do hot dock on *my*
> > Compaq laptop any other
> > way - unless someone has a 3D xray or spies who can get schematics)
>
> PNP support in the kernel would be nice. However it avoids the
> problem rather than tackling it. In particular I know the superio
> on the L440GX motherboard is hardwared not to be isa PNP.
>
> Eric
I think there are two different issues. detecting hardware the
PnP bios knows to be on the motherboard that Linux wouldn't
otherwise see, and non-PnP superio's? What separate issues
do you see?