Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:29:49 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Advice sought on PnP configuration Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970730182946.00e44bc0@etinc.com>
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At 09:25 PM 7/30/97 +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: >On Jul 30, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> wrote: >> HOWEVER: this relies on the PnP (or PCI for what matters) BIOS to >> work correctly (which might be false, see at the end of the message). > [much snipage] Note the PnP for ISA is a nightmare...a real joke if you have shared memory cards because of the limited space available. If you try to set a PCI card with 64kb of ram to "below 1 meg" most of the time the machine will hang or fail if you have another shared card also, because there isnt enough contiguous space for both of them. The bios' just aren't smart enough to solve these problems, and once a card is configured they can "reallocate" the space if something else needs to be fit in. They just fail. Dennis
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