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 ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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