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Date:      Tue, 05 May 1998 15:18:04 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), the_reman@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? 
Message-ID:  <199805052218.PAA00828@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 May 1998 08:09:11 -0000." <199805050809.BAA18863@usr02.primenet.com> 

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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)

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