Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 08:53:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: the_reman@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <199805050653.IAA07855@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199805050809.BAA18863@usr02.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 5, 98 08:08:52 am
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> > The fact that the card wants its own initialization, like any other > > card in the world, does not mean it is not PnP, for 'initialization' i mean writing bits to the io registers to configure the card to do the right thing (e.g. set the baud rate on a UART, or set the emulation mode on a sound card, etc.). The original poster mentioned the OPTI931 -- this card claims to be SB/WSS compatible, but you need to write to some of its registers to set the mode of operation you like, or just be happy with what the card does by default 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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