From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 30 23:07:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07149 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA07123; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id HAA05175; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:07:59 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199707310507.HAA05175@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Advice sought on PnP configuration To: se@FreeBSD.ORG (Stefan Esser) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:07:59 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970730212526.55863@mi.uni-koeln.de> from "Stefan Esser" at Jul 30, 97 09:25:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Jul 30, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > HOWEVER: this relies on the PnP (or PCI for what matters) BIOS to > > work correctly (which might be false, see at the end of the message). > > Well, there are **lots** of non-PnP mother boards out there > (and I happen to own one, and for that reason I care :) > > Whatever solution we finally implement, we must be able to > attach PnP boards without any help from the PnP BIOS. Ok, so you are calling for a more powerful configuration mechanism, whereas I was trying to see if I could implement something much simpler which would not require user help, etc.etc. > What do you think about my proposed sequence ? I like it, the only problem is I am unable to implement it myself :) Cheers 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________