Subject: Re: Fixed: Trouble booting NetBSD on NEC VERSA 6030 laptop...
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/23/1996 23:16:26
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996 22:39:47 -0800 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > PCMCIA is, or hopefully will be, an mi thing.

"Yes."

 > What's the _right_ way to solve this?  Plug-and-p[rl]ay?  Is that
 > doable without doing ISA PnP, or at least wedging ISA-style PnP into
 > the MI chip-level drivers for devices that  have PCMCIA front-ends?

Uhh... why would PnP help?  As I understand it, PCMCIA has an entirely
independent resource allocation scheme.

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