From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 5 18:36:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27566 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:36:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27526 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17355; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:36:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd017269; Tue May 5 18:36:01 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA21861; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:35:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805060135.SAA21861@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 01:35:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, the_reman@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805052218.PAA00828@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at May 5, 98 03:18:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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