Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:27:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Nikolai Saoukh <nms@Brigada-A.Ethereal.RU> Cc: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS settings (was Instrallation floppies and USB) Message-ID: <20000303092713.A82918@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20000303151559.A4330@Draculina.Universe>; from "Nikolai Saoukh" on Fri Mar 3 15:15:59 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003020956010.1538-100000@localhost> <38BF33E3.C21FB2A2@yahoo.com> <200003031150.UAA08643@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> <20000303151559.A4330@Draculina.Universe>
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In the last episode (Mar 03), Nikolai Saoukh said: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:50:07PM +0900, Takanori Watanabe wrote: > > In message <38BF33E3.C21FB2A2@yahoo.com>, Navan Carson wrote: > > >> > Plug and Play OS [Yes] > > >> > > >> Should be No. > > > > > >How does this setting effect traditional ISA, PNP ISA, PCI cards. > > > > This setting tells BIOS not to set any PnP setting, because OS > > itself want to set it arbitary. And any version FreeBSD ever have > > been released expects BIOS to set PnP setting. > > Well, what then pnp stuff (/usr/src/sys/isa/pnp*) do in -current? It lets the kernel scan for pnp hardware and assign drivers to it based on PnP ID (see sio.c, the sio_ids[] array for an example). It does not do conflict resolution. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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