com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0

[Joe Rhett]

> On Monday 05 December 2005 03:07 pm, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > So what's involved in simply having it say
> > Found <device>: disabled in BIOS
> > instead of half a dozen complaints for each disabled device?
 
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:26:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> There's no disabled flag.  If you have PNP OS set to yes in your BIOS, it is 
> free to leave any devices not needed for booting unconfigured (like printer 
> ports, serial ports, etc.) and there is no way for the OS to know if the BIOS 
> didn't alloc resources because it is disabled or because the BIOS was just 
> lazy.
 
If this is impossible to know, why do Windows and Linux both handle it
properly? 

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Jo Rhett
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