Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:07:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unknown PNP hardware Message-ID: <200108262207.f7QM7IW13551@harmony.village.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>
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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
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