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Date:      Mon, 04 May 1998 13:41:50 +0200
From:      "Stefan Bethke" <stefan@promo.de>
To:        "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        "Nicolas Souchu" <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr>, "FreeBSD Hackers" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments?
Message-ID:  <784658.3103278110@d254.promo.de>

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--On Son, 3. Mai 1998 13:17 Uhr -0400 "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
wrote: 
>> o Does the sound-PnP stuff support such things?
> 
> I'm not a device driver author, but I do know that FreeBSD makes _no_
> use whatsoever of the bios.  It relies in no way whatsoever on anything
> in the bios that a device might have added.

Currently (as Luigi alread said), the ISA-PnP code does rely on the BIOS to
initialize the cards.

Also, for PCI, FreeBSD relies on the BIOS32 interface for card
configuration.

Stefan

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