From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 26 14:47:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D62237B403 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:47:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7QLqar03411; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108262152.f7QLqar03411@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , Warner Losh , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unknown PNP hardware In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:39:01 PDT." <3B896C75.6DCFE2E8@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:52:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So, you are saying that this is because there is not a seperate > "No BIOS" and "BIOS" section (or entry prefix) in the hints file, > so that in a non-PnP system, both the "No BIOS" and "BIOS" > entries will be examined, whereas on a PnP system, only the "BIOS" > entries will be examined? This would be an unnecessary complication. > PS: The "BIOS" section could be shipped non-empty, if it had > a "per-rogue" setion or prefix... then known broken PnP BIOS > systems would "just work". The amount of work involved in making this "just work" would be pretty enormous, and most of the applicable systems are approaching "relic" status, making it hard to find them in order to debug. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message