Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:26:54 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <19980506112654.36055@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805052218.PAA00828@antipodes.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 03:18:04PM -0700 References: <199805050809.BAA18863@usr02.primenet.com> <199805052218.PAA00828@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 03:18:04PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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) That's just because what Microsoft happens to call PnP isn't, not by a long stretch. Decent PnP (like e.g. the Amiga had) don't need an external driver (the driver is in a EPROM on the card). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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