From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jul 15 16:31:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA01512 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:31:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01507 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03242; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707152331.QAA03242@rah.star-gate.com> To: Bernie Doehner cc: Luigi Rizzo , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clarification on PNP. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:56:24 EDT." Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:31:36 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I actually you don't have to wait for Luigi's PnP . Sujal Patel wrote a PnP configuration driver support. It is primitive ;however in your case you can use it to init the mad16 card and continue with the mad16 support. I will post later on Suja's PnP configurator. Currrently, at work. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Bernie Doehner : > > 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 >