From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 3 11:41:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03967 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 11:41:15 -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 LAA03950 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 11:41:06 -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 TAA04516; Sun, 3 May 1998 19:06:27 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805031706.TAA04516@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 19:06:27 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at May 3, 98 01:17:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 actually this is false. Even booting from disk uses BIOS services. and resources to PCI and ISA-PnP devices are assigned by the bios. 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