Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 13:17:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ISA PnP / snd PnP developments? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503131616.15307m-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19980503191531.45796@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr>
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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > Hi there, > > Here are few questions about PnP support... > > o Is there any developments currently for Microsoft-ISA PnP support? > o Should we consider the BIOS does all job for us, and just > retrieve information from BIOS at power up? And with broken BIOS? > o What are the interactions between PCI PnP and ISA PnP? > o Does the sound-PnP stuff support such things? I'm not a device driver author, but I do know that FreeBSD makes _no_ use whatsoever of the bios. It relies in no way whatsoever on anything in the bios that a device might have added. > > I was about to write some parallel chipset dependent code, and I > realized all chipsets will be controlled identicaly soon (according > to the ISA PnP standard). > > I'm new too such considerations, any suggestion/pointer will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Regards. > > -- > Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr > FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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