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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?
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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.

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