From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 13:40:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08318 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:40:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Mail.IDT.NET (mail.idt.net [198.4.75.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA08282 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:40:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sequoia (ppp-12.ts-1.mlb.idt.net [169.132.71.12]) by Mail.IDT.NET (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA04250; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:39:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <324452DE.2993@mail.idt.net> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:41:02 -0400 From: Gary Corcoran Reply-To: garycorc@mail.idt.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu, janus@freegate.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Plug and Play naivety References: <199609211938.MAA02521@phaeton.artisoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Is the (eventual) plan for the PnP code to allow kernel-config-specified > > values to override those programmed by a PnP BIOS? This would be > > desirable to allow for fixing things when the BIOS botches its > > automatic assignments (and/or I just want to specify, for example, my > > own priorities for IRQs). > > One would hope the kernel were capable of automatic assignments. The > less user involvement, the better. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- Sure, if all assignments _can_ be handled automatically, I'm all for it. But I would like to have the _option_ of overriding automatic assignments in case things go wrong. I've wasted too many hours fighting "all-knowing" PnP BIOSes and Win95, which, had I the option of setting things to what *I* said, would have solved my problems in 2 minutes... Gary