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From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu>
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To: Masahiro SEKIGUCHI <seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: ISA device irq/mem auto-configuration
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On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Masahiro SEKIGUCHI wrote:

> BTW, PC card support for FreeBSD includes some *smart* handling of
> those settings.  Windows 95, or some other competing operating systems
> have similar services for both PC cards and PnP ISA cards.  Is anyone
> working on smart resource arbitration on FreeBSD for PnP ISA cards?

Yes... I'm working it.   I have PnP support working, and now I'm working 
on ways to reliably detect and keep track of the resources that non PnP 
drivers use (e.g. DRQ, IRQ, IO Port Range, iomem range etc.).  I heard 
some stuff recently from the NetBSD camp about keeping track of iomem & 
IO port ranges--  I'm gonna try to wait to see what they produce.


Sujal