From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 3 11:35:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03230 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 11:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA03192 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 11:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA04499; Sun, 3 May 1998 19:00:37 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805031700.TAA04499@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? To: Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr (Nicolas Souchu) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 19:00:36 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980503191531.45796@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr> from "Nicolas Souchu" at May 3, 98 07:15:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi there, > > Here are few questions about PnP support... beware, the way 'PnP' is implemented is different on different buses. There is PnP for PCI, ISA, parallel port, serial ports, and who knows what more... > o Is there any developments currently for Microsoft-ISA PnP support? there is ISA PnP support in 2.2.6, and patches for 2.2.X are available on my web page. > o Should we consider the BIOS does all job for us, and just > retrieve information from BIOS at power up? And with broken BIOS? you can trust the bios, or boot with -c and manually override the PnP configuration > o What are the interactions between PCI PnP and ISA PnP? i'd say none. > o Does the sound-PnP stuff support such things? yes > I was about to write some parallel chipset dependent code, and I > realized all chipsets will be controlled identicaly soon (according > to the ISA PnP standard). see the first note. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message