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From: Andrew Maltsev <am@px.f1.ru>
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Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments?
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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 00:17:34 +0400 (MSD)
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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.


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