Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:37:19 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu> Subject: Re: Any support for PnP ? Message-ID: <199612261137.DAA00365@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Dec 1996 18:21:07 %2B0100." <199612251721.SAA20184@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi, Sujal Patel is the guy you want to talk to . He has code to init PnP cards available for FreeBSD . Also you may want to take a look at the GUS PnP driver which inits the GUS PnP and takes its configuration paramaters from the config file. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo : > Is there any support for PnP boards, in any release of FreeBSD or > the other free unixes (NetBSD, Linux) ? > > In case the answer is negative, is there anyone interested in > working on this ? I know this is a boring thing to do, but there > are probably strong "marketing" motivations to add such support: > More and more cards (specifically: audio and network) nowadays are > soft-configurable only. This forces users to run Windows just to > configure properly the boards, not to mention those cards which > neet to be enabled at bootstrap. > > Secondly, it might not be too hard to add such a feature: we already > have support for soft configuration with for the PCI boards, and the > specifications for PnP seem to be available on the net. There might > even be some code available, if someone has pointers I might spend > some time working on this. > > 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/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ >
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