Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 04:10:19 PDT From: "Albert Fields" <afieldsml@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pnp(4) no longer allowed by userconfig, pnp0 missing Message-ID: <F290GcaJCkjbZpLdnoH000062dc@hotmail.com>
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Hi, >The explicit pnp command is gone in 4.0 Instead there is automatic pnp >configuration a la Windows. It may help to add >options PNPBIOS > >When 4.0 was released there was much complaining in the mailing list about >the >disparition of the pnp command. The involved developper gave an angry >answer >saying that people had only to configure their hardware correctly in BIOS >and >remove unused hardware, that his program was guaranteed to give good IRQ >assignation. >Personnally i have no IRQ problems, but i imagine people needing to issue a >pnp disable command are screwed. In Linux you can configure isa pnp boards >after having booted (at the rc.sysinstall level) and i think it is not bad. > Exactly, although I have already added PNPBIOS, I have ISA PnP devices that hog all of the IRQs before the automatic mechanism can assign IRQs to the devices which I need to use most, which requires me to use less devices or be out of luck. My BIOS (and most others) can't disable individual PnP devices, but treats them in groups. Plus, I have ISA PnP boards that aren't controlled by my BIOS. Since I can't affect the devices which get the IRQs manually, I can't help that all the remaining IRQs are gone before the devices which should have had preference get 'can't assign resources'. There is no manual ordering of device probe on boot to the best of my knowledge. Albert _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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