Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "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?
The question is how to handle it. With Windows seeing the hardware
it may be that it is PnP superio, or it may be listed in an ACPI
table. Handling PnP & PCI visible hardware is one case for linuxBIOS.
Handling invisible hardware is the other.
Since linux doesn't currently see PnP superio's the hardware is
effectively invisible, and so for the rest of the discussion has been
treated as such.
Eric
