From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 12:39:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA13420 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA13404 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:39:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA02511; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:37:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609211937.MAA02511@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: USB + Re: Plug and Play naivety To: smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu (Sujal Patel) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:37:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, terry@lambert.org, janus@freegate.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Sep 20, 96 08:54:42 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 X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Yes, I can confirm that the GUS PnP works with BIOS hints or with hardcoded > > values in the kernel config file. Additionally, the GUS PnP fills in the > > isa data structures so the rest of the kernel knows what the card > > got set to. > > This is indeed how the PnP driver is evolving (but it's more generic then > just one card). The only problem will be that people without any PnP > bios support, will have to specify *all* of the parameters that a PnP > devices needs (this can become quite ugly for the user, especially if all > they have a a config line in the kernel config). It would be nice to > have an easy configuration utility wouldn't it? Volunteers? :-) It would be nicer if the PnP support would do the conflict resoloution itself, actually. There's no reason that the OS can't provide the same services to the OS that a functioning BIOS should provide. This would incidently recover from a BIOS screwup (which people have talked about in this thread, but which I've never seen "in real life"). > > Since we are discussing PnP and thats good 8) what about support > > for USB devices?? > > That's no my department, I know nothing about USB devices... Terry? :-) No USG hardware here, I'm afraid. The Intel doc (in Acrobat format) can be downloaded from the Intel WWW site. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.