Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> So I could see how a vendor could interpret this as not having to do
> all required device initialization at boot time.

I believe an older version of the spec was even more strict than this,
and went so far as to say that the BIOS should set everything up and
the OS not modify it, but i can no longer quote C&V...



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