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From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net>
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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Clarification on PNP.
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> I am not yet at the stage of working on #1, whereas #2 (eating
> spaghetti...) is relatively easy for me now that I have spent so
> many hours on the driver, and #3 (adding generic pnp support) is
> what I definitely want to do. For #3 do not be in a hurry since I
> am still evaluating the best architectural approach and I would
> hate to do some quick&dirty hack which once working would stay
> there forever I am sure.
> 

The MAD16 card under DOS has a little program you are supposed to run from
DOS Autoexec.bat (it loads the card's configuration). This is what you
mean by PnP, isn't it?  And as such I should probably wait for Luigi's
"conceptual framework" before trying again?

Bernie