Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:29:26 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: smpatel@prognet.com (Sujal Patel), hackers@freebsd.org, thorpej@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Puting PnP support into -current by default Message-ID: <199607101929.MAA09509@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:04:28 PDT." <199607101804.LAA23385@ref.tfs.com>
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Careful here with the PnP stuff... At the very least the PnP support should have an interface in the kernel config file similar to the way we currently configured devices. Let me explain, the current gus pnp configuration is as follows: 1. For motherboards which supports PnP device gus0 at isa? vector gusintr In this case, the gus driver at probe times calls its PnP routines to find a GUS PnP and configure it. 2. For motherboards which don't support PnP or have broken PnP support device gus0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 11 drq 5 flags 0x7 vector gusintr In this case, the gus driver at probe times calls the PnP routines however it uses the configuration values pass to the driver to activate and configure the GUS PnP. Experience has shown that if the users have to configure a device in the kernel config file as well in the driver section that it gets confusing;hence, the approach taken with the gus pnp driver. Hope this helps, Amancio >From The Desk Of "JULIAN Elischer" : > > > > > > ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/incoming/FreeBSD-ISA_PnP_June8.tar.gz > I think you meant July8 whe you wrote that file :) > > seriously.. how close is this to being put into the kernel source tree > by default.. > I know I'd like to see it as we recently had to send back > some PnP modems. > > I volunteer to put these into -current if no-one else complains.. > > julian > > > > > Contains a new snapshot of the ISA Plug & Play code. It includes 1 major > > bug fix for pnpinfo, 1 for the kernel code (a really big bug), and also a > > patch for current and 2.1.5 > > > > The code for the 2.1.5 patch is a little neater, even though both kernel > > patches are functionally equivalent. Sorry, there is still no > > autoconfiguration or "nicer" configuration. You'll just have to stuff all > > of the configuration data into a big struct :-) > > > > Sample configurations are included for 4 cards (Sb16, Supra Modem, SMC > > EtherEz, 3Com EtherLink III). The code is believed to work on 100% of > > PnP cards. > > > > > > Sujal > > > > PS: Jason, I forgot who was working on this in your camp, and I don't have > > my email-box handy- Please forward this message to him. Thanks > > > > > >
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