Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 01:35:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, the_reman@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <199805060135.SAA21861@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199805052218.PAA00828@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at May 5, 98 03:18:04 pm
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> > > The fact that the card wants its own initialization, like any other > > > card in the world, does not mean it is not PnP, > > > > Sure it does. If it wants it's own init on top of the PnP BIOS > > configuration, the card is just "P". To be "nP", it has to actually > > "play" when you "plug" it. 8-). > > This fallaciously suggests that a PnP card requires no driver support. > > Whilst one might get this impression from most of the advertising > around these days, I regret to inform you that it's pretty uncommon. 8) It was more of a comment on the need to specifically init the card when it's supposedly "SoundBlaster Compatible" and "PnP". They need to drop one of their (contradictory) claims. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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