From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 20:44:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28491 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 20:44:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com ([210.145.37.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28152 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 20:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00458; Wed, 6 May 1998 19:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805070237.TAA00458@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: Nate Williams , 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 "Thu, 07 May 1998 11:08:02 +0930." <199805070138.LAA15738@cain.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 19:37:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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.. 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