From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 5 18:56:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02253 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com ([210.145.37.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02138 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 18:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00828; Tue, 5 May 1998 15:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805052218.PAA00828@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), the_reman@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 May 1998 08:09:11 -0000." <199805050809.BAA18863@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:18:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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) -- \\ 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