From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 25 11:51:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13273 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:51:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13265 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:51:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-92.camalott.com [208.229.74.92]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00756; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:52:39 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA00781; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:50:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:50:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808251850.NAA00781@detlev.UUCP> To: mike@smith.net.au CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808231518.PAA24438@dingo.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:18:14 +0000) Subject: Re: PCI devices From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808231518.PAA24438@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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