From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 17:30:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA18826 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:30:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net (sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net [199.171.196.143]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA18817 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA10658; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:22:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:22:24 -0500 (EST) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net To: Terry Lambert cc: "Amancio Hasty Jr." , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PnP problem... In-Reply-To: <199601102158.OAA15555@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > I have an ASUS motherboard as well (my dual P90). I'll crack the > docs tonight that Rod sent with it; it may very well be that I have > ISA level PnP support as well, unless your board is peculiar. If so, > then we're in business (I guess; it's the kind of problem I'd normally > solve by writing grunge code). Whether your board has PnP support or not is irrelevant. If your board has support then you can just not include the FreeBSD PnP code, and you're fine. Or you could just include it and have the FreeBSD PnP code re-config your PnP devices to your specifications. The major point of this is to allow standard ISA motherboards (like mine and Amanico's) to use PnP peripherals. All of the grunt work of handling PnP devices at the hardware level is done-- Amancio and I have been testing the isolation, detecting, and resource information parts of the code for a week now.. The configuration code is written, but waiting to be slowly integrated into my source tree. The problem now is to not worry about the PnP specification and all of it's horror (PnP must be Intel's little mutant cousin[tm] which they locked in the basement)-- The problem is to neatly fold all of this into FreeBSD. Sujal