From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 09:48:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA25647 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:48:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25573 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:48:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA22823; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:47:07 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199601031747.SAA22823@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: FreeDetect & Plug n Play To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:47:07 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1547.820682740@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 3, 96 04:25:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > To come back to Poul's mail: in general, it should not be the > > motherboard which disables the slot, it is the software that disables > > PnP cards. Of course *some* motherboards might do what Poul says, > > but this is not generally applicable. On the other end, PnP compliant > > devices should work on all motherboards. > Yes, we are in agreement, it's two different mechanisms, to handle > two different problems. Ok, but do the slot-disabling motherboards (BTW, do you have references to some ?) also take care of remapping IO, memory and DMA addresses ? Because it should be "plug and play", not "plug and don't break things". 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/ ====================================================================