Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:38:04 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice sought on PnP configuration Message-ID: <199707302238.PAA00566@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:29:49 EDT." <3.0.32.19970730182946.00e44bc0@etinc.com>
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the stuff that I did for the gus pnp allows the uses to override whatever the bios thinks that I should have 8) The reason for this is because the first box that I tried the gus pnp had a broken PnP bios . So we should provide a general mechanism for handling PnP devices and a *manual* or old style config capability. I have just simply ran into too many brain-dead PnP bios. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of dennis : > At 09:25 PM 7/30/97 +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > >On Jul 30, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> wrote: > >> HOWEVER: this relies on the PnP (or PCI for what matters) BIOS to > >> work correctly (which might be false, see at the end of the message). > > > [much snipage] > > Note the PnP for ISA is a nightmare...a real joke if you have shared > memory cards because of the limited space available. If you try > to set a PCI card with 64kb of ram to "below 1 meg" most of the > time the machine will hang or fail if you have another shared card > also, because there isnt enough contiguous space for both of them. > The bios' just aren't smart enough to solve these problems, and once > a card is configured they can "reallocate" the space if something else > needs to be fit in. They just fail. > > Dennis
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