Re: spurious watchdog timeouts

[Ted U <grendel@heorot.stanford.edu>]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Duncan Matthew Stirling wrote:

> But isn't pcibios needed, and what's the long term affects?

I was waiting for another response, but I'll give this a try.  pcibios
reassigns interrupts to devices, though sometimes the devices don't like
their new interrupts.  Then they stop working.

If your computer works without pcibios, then it's completely unnecessary.
I think that a computer which needs pcibios is actually kinda rare.


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