On 30-Nov-2001 David Laight wrote:
> Some of the BIOS fopr these MP systems have been konowd to be dire....

> With EISA/PCI/ISA pnp systems the scope for BIOS errors is exceptional!

no BIOS does the OK thing, showing:

ISA/PNP device listing ..
Card No.  Device No. DMA IRQ Device Name
________________________________________
   1        0        NA   5  3Com #C509B Etherlink III


GENERIC.MP:
ep0 at isapnp0 port 0x210/16 irq 3

GENERIC:
ep0 at isapnp0 port 0x210/16 irq 5

I can't call this a BIOS misbehaviour, can i?
~n


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