From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 03:01:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27303 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 03:01:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA26815 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 02:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA10052; Wed, 6 May 1998 10:22:36 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805060822.KAA10052@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? To: stefan@promo.de (Stefan Bethke) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 10:22:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <392429.3103443133@d254.promo.de> from "Stefan Bethke" at May 6, 98 11:31:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > so basically the problem is not solvable automatically. By the time you > > igve hints to the os on which resources are free, you could as well > > assign resources to the pnp devices which need them. > > Basically, yes. Pratically, giving the OS hints about ressources used > instead of wiring down the PnP configuration gives me three advantages: ... > Would it be so hard to have one or more "reserved" ISA devices, which you > can add like any other device, and update throught the usual mechanisms? i don't know. > I'll take a look on the weekend... I have to say that shuffling ideas, suggestions, or requests for features is a nice thing, but at this point i think we have by far much more projects than manpower, so what we really need is people start implementing things. So your last sentence is very appreciated... cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message