Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:10:15 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PnP support Message-ID: <19970910231015.01243@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199709110453.OAA06562@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 02:52:59PM %2B1000 References: <19970910203559.04301@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199709110453.OAA06562@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith scribbled this message on Sep 11: > > > > well... actually.. this won't be neccessary soon.. I plan on adding > > resource registering to the pnp code soon... once this is done, the > > isa probe code should automaticly skip over this... > > Please, if you are going to do this, go back to the discussion that > came up last time on this topic, most particularly the allocation and > attachment strategy that Stefan and I discussed. Doing this job > half-assed is just going to mean that it will have to be done again. > Do it right and people will love you forever. are you talking about making auto resource assignment?? if you are, that wasn't what I was refering too... currently the PnP code DOES NOT claim that a device is using port space (i.e. to prevent conflics) or memory space for that mater... this is what I was talking about... not automaticly assigned free resources... one good example is that Pasqual who was testing out my sio aware PnP driver had his modem attached as both sio1 and sio2.. this isn't ver good from a user standpoint and needs to be fixed ASAP... 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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