Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:50:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI devices Message-ID: <199808251850.NAA00781@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199808231518.PAA24438@dingo.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:18:14 %2B0000) References: <199808231518.PAA24438@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> For clarity's sake and no more, let me point out that "Plug and Play" > is a generic term describing zero-user-intervention configuration. PCI > is implicitly "plug and play" - you can't have a non-PnP PCI card, so > it's more correct to say that PCI devices only support Plug-n-Play so > you can't turn it off. > This confusion is common; many people refer to PnP only in the context > of ISA PnP, but PnP is a generic term applied to ISA PnP, PCI, PCMCIA, > CardBUS, USB, etc. S100 PnP... Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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