From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 18:40:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07977 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 18:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07870 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 18:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA15738; Thu, 7 May 1998 11:08:02 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199805070138.LAA15738@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nate Williams cc: Mike Smith , 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: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 09:17:25 CST." <199805061517.JAA05337@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:08:02 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Things is, this falls really short for non-ISA/non-PnP devices as well. > Think hot-swappable devices, and devices that *really* no one knows > about? Also, devices that can use IRQ's, but don't necessarily need > them. How do you say 'go ahead and use it', vs. 'don't bother'. It's also not very useful for devices which use multiple IRQs, and ports etc.. port0 .. port1 .. would be useful for that.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message