From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 19:19:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24807 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:19:35 -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 TAA24796 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA16389; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:13:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601110313.UAA16389@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PnP problem... To: smpatel@wam.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:13:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, neil@synthcom.com, terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Jan 10, 96 09:22:30 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 listing is not complete, but you get the idea. You should keep this > > in mind while doing your PnP work since I think this is the approach > > we should be shooting for. > > I have been keeping this in mind while I was coding. To change over to > a scheme that you described would be very simple. Right now, I just > gather the PnP configuration information from the kernel configuration; > this would simply change to information from PCI/EISA/ISA probes, after > the ISA code was cleaned up. > > A couple of quick questions: Is there a unified structure where one can > access the information from PCI/EISA/ISA probes? How well can the ISA > code non-invasively probe devices (currently)? Well, for the second question, the answer is "it depends on the device being probed". 8-(. This is why Win95 uses the arbitrary "if it takes too long, reset your machine..." and logging: to allow destructive probes to explode. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.