From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 3 11:19:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01227 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 11:19:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01219 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 11:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA12339; Sun, 3 May 1998 13:17:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 13:17:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: Nicolas Souchu cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? In-Reply-To: <19980503191531.45796@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > Hi there, > > Here are few questions about PnP support... > > o Is there any developments currently for Microsoft-ISA PnP support? > o Should we consider the BIOS does all job for us, and just > retrieve information from BIOS at power up? And with broken BIOS? > o What are the interactions between PCI PnP and ISA PnP? > o Does the sound-PnP stuff support such things? I'm not a device driver author, but I do know that FreeBSD makes _no_ use whatsoever of the bios. It relies in no way whatsoever on anything in the bios that a device might have added. > > I was about to write some parallel chipset dependent code, and I > realized all chipsets will be controlled identicaly soon (according > to the ISA PnP standard). > > I'm new too such considerations, any suggestion/pointer will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Regards. > > -- > Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr > FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message