Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 17:21:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? Message-ID: <199805050021.RAA01536@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 19:15:31 -0000." <19980503191531.45796@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr>
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> Hi there, > > Here are few questions about PnP support... > > o Is there any developments currently for Microsoft-ISA PnP support? There is some support for ISA PnP, but no interaction with the PnP BIOS. > o Should we consider the BIOS does all job for us, and just > retrieve information from BIOS at power up? And with broken BIOS? No, there are three cases: - All devices configured and active. - Only boot-related devices configured and active. - No PnP BIOS, nothing configured or active. We have to support all three. > o What are the interactions between PCI PnP and ISA PnP? They are generally limited to resource allocations from a shared pool. > o Does the sound-PnP stuff support such things? The sound drivers are just consumers of the ISA PnP support. > I was about to write some parallel chipset dependent code, and I > realized all chipsets will be controlled identicaly soon (according > to the ISA PnP standard). No, they won't be. PnP just tells you how they are configured. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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