Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:29:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dmaddox@conterra.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of Functionality with newpnp Message-ID: <199909261929.MAA13579@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 15:12:59 EDT." <19990926151259.A1327@dmaddox.conterra.com>
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> On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:59:33AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:41:14AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > PnP is an infrastructure facility used by drivers to detect and > > > > configure hardware. The side-effect you were relying on was that the > > > > old code would indiscriminately configure any and all PnP hardware > > > > regardless of whether a driver had requested it to. > > > > > > Why is this not desirable? > > > > I've already asked you to do your own research, and I meant it. The > > simple answer is "if we don't have a [working] driver for it, we don't > > want it". > > But we do have a working driver for the AWE64. Or rather, it worked fine > before the new PnP code was comitted, now it doesn't. It seems to me that > this indicates a deficiency in the new PnP code. Isn't that correct? No. I have already explained to you that the AWE64 driver that you were using (one actually of _three_ that we have) only worked with PnP cards as an accidental side-effect of the old PnP code. Now that the PnP code has been fixed, the brokenness of the old driver is exposed. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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