From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 7 21:56:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20231 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 21:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA20191 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 21:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA09402 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Fri, 8 May 1998 06:55:57 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA02938; Thu, 7 May 1998 21:23:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199805071923.VAA02938@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980507095816.00689420@bugs.us.dell.com> from Tony Overfield at "May 7, 98 09:58:16 am" To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 21:23:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Tony Overfield wrote... > Mike Smith wrote: > > [...] by taking advantage of the > > fact that most systems *do* have PnP BIOS support. > > Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > >This assumption is wrong. > > I'd be very surprised if any new system built in the last > three years didn't include PnP BIOS support. IMHO, anything > older than that is approaching obsolescence anyway. This is a recurring subject I suppose: there are still quite a number of people who run on a low/no budget and use old hardware. The last time, a couple of months ago, was with the proposal to axe bad144. Ancient maybe in your view, but usable to them. And most likely of era's when PNP was only a semiconductor acronym. Just my Dfl 0.02, Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message