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From: "Jesse Brandeburg" <jesseb@ornews.intel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCI Ethernet cards
Date: 5 Aug 1996 18:48:45 GMT
Organization: Intel
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Message-ID: <01bb82fe$71097590$84b38686@jbrandeb-desk>
References: <31DD73A8.41C6@ASG.unb.ca> <4rp5vh$6f7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> <petzi-3107960039510001@apfel.zit.th-darmstadt.de>
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PCI and Plug and Play are not the same thing. Plug and Play only applies to
ISA cards, and is a patch to the ISA spec to enable auto-configuration. PCI
on the other hand, does just like the guy below says, and has had
auto-configuration from the beginning. The BIOS (generally) makes all the
choices about a PCI adapter's configuration by what the PCI adapter
requests at POST time.
--
Jesse Brandeburg | Software Engineer | jesseb@ornews.intel.com
Intel is not responsible for what I say, I am.
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but personal correspondence*
Michael Beckmann <petzi@zit.th-darmstadt.de> wrote in article
<petzi-3107960039510001@apfel.zit.th-darmstadt.de>...
> In article <4rp5vh$6f7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de>, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE
(Stefan
> Esser) wrote:
>
> > In article <31DD73A8.41C6@ASG.unb.ca>, Peter Howlett
> <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> writes:
> > |> I notice the FreeBSD home page says that PNP PCI cards
> > |> are not supported and that those features must be
> > |> turned off for PCI ethernet cards to work.
>
> Where did you read that (URL) ? I never heard about PnP PCI cards. The
IRQ
> settings on PCI cards are done by the mainboard bios, so it depends on
the
> mainboard bios whether that is plug-and-play, or you assign the IRQs
> manually.
>
> Michael
>