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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:47:07 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeDetect & Plug n Play
Message-ID:  <199601031747.SAA22823@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <1547.820682740@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 3, 96 04:25:21 pm

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> > To come back to Poul's mail: in general, it should not be the
> > motherboard which disables the slot, it is the software that disables
> > PnP cards. Of course *some* motherboards might do what Poul says,
> > but this is not generally applicable. On the other end, PnP compliant
> > devices should work on all motherboards.
> Yes, we are in agreement, it's two different mechanisms, to handle
> two different problems.

Ok, but do the slot-disabling motherboards (BTW, do you have
references to some ?) also take care of remapping IO, memory and
DMA addresses ? Because it should be "plug and play", not "plug
and don't break things".

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
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