On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Matt Herzog wrote:

> 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
>
> -( when booting a generic kernel )-
>
> > 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 ( in any generic kernel I have seen )
> > so perhaps "pnpbios at mainbus" never does either.
> >
> > 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?
>
> By telling the BIOS I have a PNP OS, don't I give NetBSD a freer
> reign in controlling hardware resources?

No, it turn off "normal" PNP in the BIOS, and instead enables a
proprietary interface that only Windows 95 (and 98?) can use.

Frederick