From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 5 16:02:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03176 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 16:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (a08m.cet.co.jp [202.32.65.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03115 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 16:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01536; Mon, 4 May 1998 17:21:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805050021.RAA01536@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nicolas Souchu cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 19:15:31 -0000." <19980503191531.45796@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 17:21:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi there, > > Here are few questions about PnP support... > > o Is there any developments currently for Microsoft-ISA PnP support? There is some support for ISA PnP, but no interaction with the PnP BIOS. > o Should we consider the BIOS does all job for us, and just > retrieve information from BIOS at power up? And with broken BIOS? No, there are three cases: - All devices configured and active. - Only boot-related devices configured and active. - No PnP BIOS, nothing configured or active. We have to support all three. > o What are the interactions between PCI PnP and ISA PnP? They are generally limited to resource allocations from a shared pool. > o Does the sound-PnP stuff support such things? The sound drivers are just consumers of the ISA PnP support. > I was about to write some parallel chipset dependent code, and I > realized all chipsets will be controlled identicaly soon (according > to the ISA PnP standard). No, they won't be. PnP just tells you how they are configured. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message