Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:59:31 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options PNPBIOS Message-ID: <20020418225931.E554A5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:24:00 PDT." <003101c1e6fd$d50714d0$c22a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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> From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:24:00 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > I compiled a kernel with options PNPBIOS as instructed in LINT to get my > sound card working. The machine is a Pentium II Pro. I have ensured > that the BIOS is configured for PNP OS but still get these messages: > > unknown: <PNP0000> can't assign resources > unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources > unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources > unknown: <PNP0c01> can't assign resources > unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources > unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources > unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources > unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources > > I've searched Google and found others with this problem but no > solutions. Is PNPBIOS documented somewhere? Where should I start? These are always present with PNPBIOS as there are several things that identify themselves via PNP that FreeBSD does not know/care about. They can almost always be ignored. As I understand it, PNPBIOS and having BIOS configured for PNP are very different things and the general advice I have seen is to not turn on PNP in BIOS. As I understand it, PNPBIOS causes FreeBSD to query BIOS for device information on all device. It eliminates the need to specify all sorts of stuff like iomem, irq, and drq in the kernel for ISA devices. I generally find it annoying and go ahead and define all of the parameters in my kernel config. Of course, it's entirely possible that I don't understand it. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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