Subject: Re: Plug and Pray
To: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/12/1999 15:44:09
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 04:41:13PM -0700, R. C. Dowdeswell wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Would any of these calls enable PCI PNP to work with PNP OS
> set to yes?  This is a pretty serious issue for my company that
> I am trying to resolve pretty quickly...

No. The problem when PNP OS is set to yes is that the BIOS doesn't configure
the PCI bus at all (which breacks the PCI specs), this has to be done by
the OS. NetBSD doesn't do this because it's supposed to be done by the BIOS
(it's supposed to know better the hardware than the OS, isn't it ? :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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