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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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