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Date:      Sun, 3 May 1998 19:06:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments?
Message-ID:  <199805031706.TAA04516@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503131616.15307m-100000@localhost> from "Chuck Robey" at May 3, 98 01:17:13 pm

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> I'm not a device driver author, but I do know that FreeBSD makes _no_
> use whatsoever of the bios.  It relies in no way whatsoever on anything

actually this is false. Even booting from disk uses BIOS services.
and resources to PCI and ISA-PnP devices are assigned by the bios.

	cheers
	luigi
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