From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 01:01:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA15078 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 01:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA15061 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 01:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA02519; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:31:12 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199709120631.IAA02519@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: PnP support To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:31:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709120614.QAA01493@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 12, 97 04:13:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, also thanks to being in a different timezone I could read all this thread before having a chance to post. Unfortunately the only conclusion I can gather from the discussion is that there is not complete agreement on what should be done. As long as there is a manual override mechanism, which we already have for legacy ISA and PnP (Terry, this is what the pnp code in -current does), I am not concerned about what gets implemented to automate resource allocation. If anything fails, there is a backdoor. So I'll avoid further comments waiting for someone to volunteer for a sample implementation :) What I think is important to have (also to test possible solutions etc.) is the 'extent' manager mentioned earlier in this thread. 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________