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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:27:13 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Nikolai Saoukh <nms@Brigada-A.Ethereal.RU>
Cc:        Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BIOS settings (was Instrallation floppies and USB)
Message-ID:  <20000303092713.A82918@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000303151559.A4330@Draculina.Universe>; from "Nikolai Saoukh" on Fri Mar  3 15:15:59 GMT 2000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003020956010.1538-100000@localhost> <38BF33E3.C21FB2A2@yahoo.com> <200003031150.UAA08643@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> <20000303151559.A4330@Draculina.Universe>

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In the last episode (Mar 03), Nikolai Saoukh said:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:50:07PM +0900, Takanori Watanabe wrote:
> > In message <38BF33E3.C21FB2A2@yahoo.com>, Navan Carson wrote:
> > >> >    Plug and Play OS               [Yes]
> > >>
> > >> Should be No.
> > >
> > >How does this setting effect traditional ISA, PNP ISA, PCI cards.
> > 
> > This setting tells BIOS not to set any PnP setting, because OS
> > itself want to set it arbitary. And any version FreeBSD ever have
> > been released expects BIOS to set PnP setting.
> 
> Well, what then pnp stuff (/usr/src/sys/isa/pnp*) do in -current?

It lets the kernel scan for pnp hardware and assign drivers to it based
on PnP ID (see sio.c, the sio_ids[] array for an example).  It does not
do conflict resolution.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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