In the last episode (Mar 03), Nikolai Saoukh said:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:50:07PM +0900, Takanori Watanabe wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Navan Carson wrote:
> > >> > Plug and Play OS [Yes]
> > >>
> > >> Should be No.
> > >
> > >How does this setting effect traditional ISA, PNP ISA, PCI cards.
> >
> > This setting tells BIOS not to set any PnP setting, because OS
> > itself want to set it arbitary. And any version FreeBSD ever have
> > been released expects BIOS to set PnP setting.
>
> Well, what then pnp stuff (/usr/src/sys/isa/pnp*) do in -current?
It lets the kernel scan for pnp hardware and assign drivers to it based
on PnP ID (see sio.c, the sio_ids[] array for an example). It does not
do conflict resolution.
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Dan Nelson
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