From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 25 10:00:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA17415 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 10:00:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA17408 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 10:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA20184 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 18:21:07 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199612251721.SAA20184@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Any support for PnP ? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 18:21:07 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there any support for PnP boards, in any release of FreeBSD or the other free unixes (NetBSD, Linux) ? In case the answer is negative, is there anyone interested in working on this ? I know this is a boring thing to do, but there are probably strong "marketing" motivations to add such support: More and more cards (specifically: audio and network) nowadays are soft-configurable only. This forces users to run Windows just to configure properly the boards, not to mention those cards which neet to be enabled at bootstrap. Secondly, it might not be too hard to add such a feature: we already have support for soft configuration with for the PCI boards, and the specifications for PnP seem to be available on the net. There might even be some code available, if someone has pointers I might spend some time working on this. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________