Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 00:17:34 +0400 (MSD) From: Andrew Maltsev <am@px.f1.ru> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? Message-ID: <199805032017.AAA17846@px.f1.ru>
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> > > I'm not a device driver author, but I do know that FreeBSD makes _no_ > > > use whatsoever of the bios. It relies in no way whatsoever on anything > > > > actually this is false. Even booting from disk uses BIOS services. > > and resources to PCI and ISA-PnP devices are assigned by the bios. > > I guess in my mind I was saying that the drivers don't use any bios > routines ... the booting is _not_ done by FreeBSD, so I was still right > there, but the PnP assignment, perhaps the data from that (but not the > routines) are used, is that a correct assumption? The point was, our > device drivers don't make any use of bios routines. Is that right? You > *are* a device driver author, so I'll assume you can answer that > correctly. It's more for -chat, but consider APM bios support also :) > The Pnp stuff, I mean the assignment, is done before FreeBSD gets > control, right? And there is never any call from FreeBSD to any bios > code, right? Even remapped code, or any code originally copied from > bios, right? No. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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