Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Ted Unangst:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Michael Shalayeff wrote:
>
> > > set it to no.
> >
> > actually set it to yes. always.
> > on most modern machine setting it to no often
> > results in incorrect pcibios config tables
> > generated and thus often screwed interrupts routing.
> > that's on i386 anyway. on amd64 it makes no diff i guess.
>
> i guess i've only fiddled with it on older machines then, where turning it
> on meant some onboard devices stopped working. :(
as any bios whacking^Wtweaking you never know.
i've not seen a box that made devices unusable
while whacking pcibios before (:
cu
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paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)
