From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 17:42:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28723 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28625 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA25932; Wed, 6 May 1998 18:40:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA06968; Wed, 6 May 1998 18:40:52 -0600 Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 18:40:52 -0600 Message-Id: <199805070040.SAA06968@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Nate Williams , Amancio Hasty , Archie Cobbs , stefan@promo.de (Stefan Bethke), luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-Reply-To: <199805062219.PAA00563@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: <199805061643.KAA16376@fly.mt.sri.com> <199805062219.PAA00563@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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