Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 01:45:38 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP support Message-ID: <19970912014538.17294@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199709120631.IAA02519@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 08:31:12AM %2B0200 References: <199709120614.QAA01493@word.smith.net.au> <199709120631.IAA02519@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo scribbled this message on Sep 12: > Ok, also thanks to being in a different timezone I could read all > this thread before having a chance to post. > > Unfortunately the only conclusion I can gather from the discussion > is that there is not complete agreement on what should be done. > > As long as there is a manual override mechanism, which we already > have for legacy ISA and PnP (Terry, this is what the pnp code in > -current does), I am not concerned about what gets implemented to > automate resource allocation. If anything fails, there is a backdoor. > So I'll avoid further comments waiting for someone to volunteer > for a sample implementation :) > > What I think is important to have (also to test possible solutions > etc.) is the 'extent' manager mentioned earlier in this thread. I've started looking at it.. and the header looks promising... if I remeber right... it does more than I thought it would.. and looks like we should adopt it... I'm going to start looking at the code.. and after that, see if I can't get a kernel that will use the extent as a resource checker... ttyl.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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