From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 01:13:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA06442 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 01:13:29 -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 BAA06422 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 01:13:09 -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 AAA01715; Wed, 6 May 1998 00:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805060706.AAA01715@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), stefan@promo.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 07:41:46 +0200." <199805060541.HAA09666@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 00:06:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > no. what is available and what is not depends on the hardware. > as someone else (Mike ?) mentioned, if you put your own non-pnp card in > a pc and the bios/os/whatever doesn't know how to use it, the card will > be undetected until a conflict occurs. The PnP spec have a way to detect > conflicts but i am not sure it can really work because it depends on > how the non-pnp card uses resources (e.g. it could be listening for > some data before enabling its outputs; since the conflict detection can > only work if the unknown card drives the output lines, in this case the > detection will fail). I can't actually imagine a card that would behave in this fashion. More specifically, if it works for Microsoft & friends, we can assume that it's going to work in at least most cases. It may not be perfect, but it's better. -- \\ 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