From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 5 01:31:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24324 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 01:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA24182 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 01:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA07855; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:53:25 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805050653.IAA07855@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 08:53:25 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: the_reman@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805050809.BAA18863@usr02.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 5, 98 08:08:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The fact that the card wants its own initialization, like any other > > card in the world, does not mean it is not PnP, for 'initialization' i mean writing bits to the io registers to configure the card to do the right thing (e.g. set the baud rate on a UART, or set the emulation mode on a sound card, etc.). The original poster mentioned the OPTI931 -- this card claims to be SB/WSS compatible, but you need to write to some of its registers to set the mode of operation you like, or just be happy with what the card does by default luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message