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To: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net>
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Subject: Re: option PNPBIOS 
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:52:59 -0700
From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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> 
> Does this kernel option do anything (in 4.4-STABLE)?
> 
> I'm not sure to read it as
> ' BSD doesn't need to sort anything out, the BIOS did it all '
> (due to the name) or as:
> ' assume everything is a mess when the kernel boots'
> (since it seems to have replaced pnp0)

It's neither.  It means "go ask the BIOS about PnP devices as well as 
scanning the ISA bus".

> I'm having grief getting a USB card fitted, and think it
> would help to have FreeBSD sort out the PCI bus because,
> frankly, my BIOS is crap at it.

This is a major ongoing project.

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