From owner-freebsd-qa Fri Mar 3 7:27:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBA137BB6B; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA86852; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:27:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:27:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Nikolai Saoukh Cc: Takanori Watanabe , 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> References: <38BF33E3.C21FB2A2@yahoo.com> <200003031150.UAA08643@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> <20000303151559.A4330@Draculina.Universe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.5i In-Reply-To: <20000303151559.A4330@Draculina.Universe>; from "Nikolai Saoukh" on Fri Mar 3 15:15:59 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message