pccards are not detected

[Daniel Ritz]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14.24, Jar wrote:
> 
> > it's a change in PCI init (and your BIOS is broken)...
> > could you test the attached patch?
> Off topic:
> 
> The BIOSes are more or less buggy. Does Linux have to use BIOS information or could
> it be possible to setup resources etc. things directly without BIOS's help? I am
> wondering if other operating systems (Windows etc.) relies to the BIOS at the same
> way as Linux do.
> 

there's some hardware details only the BIOS knows about. like the routing of the
interrupt pins. so no, you need to rely on it to a certain level...