From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 19:13:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24672 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA24667 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:12:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA16348; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:08:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601110308.UAA16348@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PnP problem... To: smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:08:08 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Jan 10, 96 08:22:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.