From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 20:48:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29201 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 20:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29103 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 20:48:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA27164; Wed, 6 May 1998 21:47:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA07836; Wed, 6 May 1998 21:47:42 -0600 Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 21:47:42 -0600 Message-Id: <199805070347.VAA07836@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Nate Williams , 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: <199805070237.TAA00458@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: <199805070138.LAA15738@cain.gsoft.com.au> <199805070237.TAA00458@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid 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 Pleas Mike, read what was said. for non-ISA/non-PnP devices, reading the PnP docs is a waste of time. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message