Re: isapnp probe is slow

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:48:24AM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:25:48AM +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:12:09PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > Would disabling isapnp based on the age of the system make sense?
> > 
> > I think you can skip it completely if ACPI is attached.
> 
> Whyso? I thought about that and I'm not so sure, because there are older
> machines with ACPI. Incidentally, it would probably be a good idea to not
> attach ACPI on older systems, based on the BIOS date like FreeBSD does.

ACPI is supposed to contain all the data for PNP as well.
Whether or not vendors bothered with it is a separate question.

Joerg