Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:57:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice sought on PnP configuration Message-ID: <199707310857.KAA05446@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199707310722.AAA00321@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jul 31, 97 00:22:32 am
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> > > Whatever solution we finally implement, we must be able to > > > attach PnP boards without any help from the PnP BIOS. > > > > Ok, so you are calling for a more powerful configuration mechanism, ... > > > What do you think about my proposed sequence ? > > > > I like it, the only problem is I am unable to implement it myself :) > > You can . The gus pnp sub module does just that. For non-PnP > boards it takes the configuration information from the config > file . > --- > device gus0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 11 drq 5 flags 0x7 vector gusintr > --- > When the driver sees the configuration information for the card > it just simply overrides whatever the BIOS set the card to or honestly, I would call that a quick hack, not a general configuration mechanism. Especially because I plan to support more than one sound card, and the PnP cards would show up as pcm1, pcm2, ... I think I will look at the userconfig stuff and see if changes are not too hard to implement... Cheers Luigi
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