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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:13:09 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel)
Cc:        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, neil@synthcom.com, terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PnP problem...
Message-ID:  <199601110313.UAA16389@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110211637.9867H-100000@sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net> from "Sujal Patel" at Jan 10, 96 09:22:30 pm

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> > The listing is not complete, but you get the idea.  You should keep this
> > in mind while doing your PnP work since I think this is the approach
> > we should be shooting for.
> 
> I have been keeping this in mind while I was coding.  To change over to 
> a scheme that you described would be very simple.  Right now, I just 
> gather the PnP configuration information from the kernel configuration; 
> this would simply change to information from PCI/EISA/ISA probes, after
> the ISA code was cleaned up.
> 
> A couple of quick questions:  Is there a unified structure where one can
> access the information from PCI/EISA/ISA probes?  How well can the ISA
> code non-invasively probe devices (currently)? 

Well, for the second question, the answer is "it depends on the device
being probed".  8-(.

This is why Win95 uses the arbitrary "if it takes too long, reset your
machine..." and logging: to allow destructive probes to explode.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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