From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 18 18:27:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25430 for current-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 18:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25412 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 18:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA01001; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 18:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970918182701.49721@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 18:27:01 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sio aware pnp driver and resource conflict detection References: <199709181214.OAA09800@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199709190047.JAA26545@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199709190047.JAA26545@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 09:47:07AM +0900 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kazutaka YOKOTA scribbled this message on Sep 19: > >> I am currently working on extending `moused', `psm', `mse', etc to > >> support modern mice such as MS IntelliMouse. > >... > >> I have added a piece of code to `moused' to probe the specified serial > >> port in order to determine the type of mouse by decoding PnP ID string > > > >The PnP support which is in -current only refers to the 'ISA PnP' i.e. > >cards plugged on the ISA bus. > > > >I believe you refer to the 'COM PnP' which asks the mouse's type by > >bit-banging on the RS232 lines. This should probably go into the 'com' > >or 'sio' driver ? > > Yes, that's right. I thought John-Mark Gurney was refering to that > spec. Was I mistaken? yes you are mistaken.. the support I'm talking about is supporting PnP modems to automaticly bind to the sio driver.. and reading their possibly unusual configurations from the config... I ran a modem at 0x280/11 with the new PnP-aware driver... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD