From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 26 15: 7:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E3B37B40B for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7QM7Iq63684; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:07:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7QM7IW13551; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:07:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200108262207.f7QM7IW13551@harmony.village.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Subject: Re: unknown PNP hardware Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:39:01 PDT." <3B896C75.6DCFE2E8@mindspring.com> References: <3B896C75.6DCFE2E8@mindspring.com> <200108261112.UAA14768@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <20010823172813.A69940@leviathan.inethouston.net> <200108251636.f7PGabW05246@harmony.village.org> <200108261551.f7QFpvW11269@harmony.village.org> <200108261719.CAA15944@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:07:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh 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 In message <3B896C75.6DCFE2E8@mindspring.com> Terry Lambert writes: : 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? : : It seems an obvious enhancement to me that there be seperate : sections, where the "BIOS" section is shipped empty, and is only : consulted to override broken PnP BIOS contents on PnP BIOS : systems... : : 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". Since that's not how it works, the solution is a non-starter. We just need to carefully order the ISA code probing sections to get the desired effects. We haven't done that yet. All PnP devices are probed together at the end, which isn't quite right. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message