Subject: Re: need pcmcia i/o mapping quirk table?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/16/2000 10:06:34
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> >Does anyone still have machines that die horribly with the PNPBIOS code?
> 
> Crashes and burns horribly on Sony Vaio PCG-3xx.
> 
> I've got it to boot, _once_, after warmbooting from Windows or some
> such. Every other combinatin crashed immediately after the PCI-bios
> messages. I've also pruned the PnPbios attachments back. No difference.
> 
> The crahses reboot back to the BIOS and cleared the screen before I
> can read anything.

	Any chance of tracking it down with nasty printf()s and delays?

	It would be good to have this in 1.5, but we need to intersect
	the set of machines with problems with that of people to track
	it down :/


		David/absolute