From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 4 04:46:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA12006 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 04:46:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from schubert.Promo.DE (schubert.Promo.DE [194.45.188.65] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA11998 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 04:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@promo.de) Received: from d254.promo.de (d254.Promo.DE [194.45.188.254]) by schubert.Promo.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA03802; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:40:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 13:41:50 +0200 From: "Stefan Bethke" To: "Chuck Robey" cc: "Nicolas Souchu" , "FreeBSD Hackers" Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? Message-ID: <784658.3103278110@d254.promo.de> X-Mailer: Mulberry Demo (MacOS) [1.4.0a3, s/n Evaluation] X-Licensed-To: Unlicensed - for evaluation only MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Son, 3. Mai 1998 13:17 Uhr -0400 "Chuck Robey" 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 -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-18 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message