On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:04, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > Having platform code instantiate platform devices would be great but I
> > wonder how it will look like on x86 where we don't have a way to enumerate
> > devices. ACPI might do it but I am not sure if all DSDTs describe beepers...
>
> I don't know the gory details about x86 so I'll let others decide what
> to do there... can't it start by instanciating it unconditionally +/-
> maybe a kernel command line to "skip" it in case the hw is really not
> legacy ?
>
Maybe.. I need to think about it...
--
Dmitry
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