From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 13:44:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04174 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:44:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04166 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA15498; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:40:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601102140.OAA15498@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PnP problem... To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:40:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601102116.NAA02144@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Jan 10, 96 01:16:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Lets take this a step a time. In my case, I have a PnP motherboard. > > > > > > 1) disable all PnP > > > 2) probe all non-PnP cards > > > 3) Query PnP cards for where they may fit > > > 4) Do a topological sort to fit them all > > > > > > How am I supposed to know that I have a driver for a given PnP device? > > > > You don't care, in the general case. > > > > Terry most cool, now the next step. Care to write the > topological sort? > > We are all happily waiting 8) It's a trivial brute-force problem (ie: not interesting 8-)). I have access to MS developer documentation in their SDK and DDK, so I'll have to check if this is under non-disclosure or not. Even then, I'd say that the Intel sepc was enough if you went at it from a software diagnostic perspective rather than a hardware designer perspective. I also have a slight handicap between theory and implementation of not owning any PnP hardware (well, PCMCIA counts as a special intermediate case, I guess, so that isn't strictly true). What "PnP ISA motherboard are you using? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.