Subject: Re: pnpbios
To: Matt Herzog <mherzog@attbi.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/01/2002 21:45:40
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:14:57PM -0400, Matt Herzog wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> For years (literally) I laboured under the mistaken idea that
> apm0 would show up as a device in dmesg if my machine's APM
> was supported in NetBSD. Since I was wrong about this, could
> I also be wrong about pnpbios? "apm0 at mainbus" never shows up
> anywhere in dmesg so perhaps "pnpbios at mainbus" never does either.

apm0 does show up, and I guess pnpbios will as well:
rochebonne:/home/bouyer>dmesg |grep apm0
apm0 at mainbus0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle)

> 
> In my BIOS, I have answered NO to the option where I can tell
> the BIOS that my OS is a pnp OS. Is NetBSD ever a pnp OS as
> far as any pc BIOS is concerned?

No, I think this was only for win95.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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