Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 19:37:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, 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: <199805070237.TAA00458@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 11:08:02 %2B0930." <199805070138.LAA15738@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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> > > 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.. Please folks; read the relevant PnP documents before you wade into this discussion. I can see a lot of uncertainty and outright confusion from things that have been read out of context. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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