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Date:      Wed, 6 May 1998 18:40:52 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, stefan@promo.de (Stefan Bethke), luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? 
Message-ID:  <199805070040.SAA06968@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805062219.PAA00563@antipodes.cdrom.com>
References:  <199805061643.KAA16376@fly.mt.sri.com> <199805062219.PAA00563@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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> > > The device driver can tell the upper layer which resources it wants or 
> > > does not need.
> > 
> > The device driver needs a hint from the user to know whether or not it
> > wants a resource or not.
> 
> Sure.  Stick a sysctl variable in there.

Too late.  The hardware is already probed.

> The principal issue with using the PnP BIOS

... Forget about PnP BIOS.  We need a solution that is *NOT* specific to
PnP.  The solution proposed is way too specific to PnP cards, and we
need a solution that is slightly bigger than them.


Nate

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