Re: PNP design philosophy?

From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 21:54:38 EST


On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:38:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> The ISAPnP card configuration is specified as ISA bus operations and as such
> can be done with no PC BIOS support - in fact that is a requirement since
> you can and people do put isapnp cards in ancient machines.

Or in relatively recent non-x86 machines. Not that the pnp
designers gave that a moment's thought, just a handy side effect.

r~

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