Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:08:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PnP problem... Message-ID: <199601110308.UAA16348@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110201819.9867C-100000@sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net> from "Sujal Patel" at Jan 10, 96 08:22:24 pm
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> 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. OK, fine, *be* practical, then. 8-) 8-). I don't think the problems of automatic relocation on non-PnP motherboards are insoluable, but anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. Watch for me to get noisy when you contemplate rev 2.x of the code. 8-) Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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