Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:39:15 +1000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, mike@smith.net.au, perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP support Message-ID: <199709120439.OAA01205@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:45:48 GMT." <199709112245.PAA17225@usr03.primenet.com>
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> > I was actually thinking about a "dummy" driver that pretended to be > a device driver for the devices. This would actually allow a boot -c > (if it could edit the irq/io/base) to be used to configure dummy > devices into the conflict space so that nothing gets located on top > of them. See the PnP spec, section 4.3 on the I/O Range Check register for the major solution to this problem. See your BIOS for the IRQ/DRQ allocation configuration options (ISA/PnP toggle). The only losing case now is a system with no ECSD support, ie. "legacy" hardware. A userconfig-level "list of available IRQ/DRQ" option sounds pretty good here. mike
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