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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:09:29 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Advice sought on PnP configuration
Message-ID:  <199707300639.QAA19238@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707300600.PAA19038@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 30, 97 03:30:44 pm"

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Michael Smith stands accused of saying:
> 
> My personal preference :
> 
>  - gather all the information :
> 	PCI probe
> 	PnP probe
> 	get ISA config (compiled in, datafile, etc.)
> 	get PCI/PnP identifier tables (compiled in, bootloader, etc.)
> 
>  - attach PCI devices
> 	I/O ports and IRQs are assigned by the PCI rules.
>  - attach PnP devices
> 	IRQs are taken from the free pool left after PCI assignment and
> 	those marked for 'legacy' use.  I/O ports are probed as per the
> 	PnP spec.
>  - walk ISA config data, probe possible devices
> 	We know which IRQ and I/O resources are still available,
> 	we can hunt for devices that match the gaps.

  - attach/detach PCCARD devices
	we know which resources are still free, and can map these
	across possible config indexes in the card until a match is
	found.

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