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) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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