Re: PnP in 2.2 ?

Peter Svensson <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> I really think that in this case we ought to hold back for long enough to get 
>> PnP into 2.2
>
>Are there situations where the normal isapnp-tools don't work? I really
>prefer configuring the pnp-stuff as much manually as I can. I only wish
>there was a way to manually reconfigure the pci-pnp on an award bios.

Here's an example:

NFSroot (or any network install off a bootdisk w/o isapnptools)
on (say) a 3c509 that has PnP enabled. Sometimes it's detected anyway,
most of the time it's not. Yes, you can disable PnP on a 3c509, but
it's another step for people to go through, and it will affect the
existing configs that the person may already have on their machine for
existing OS's.

If not the mainstream kernel, perhaps we could keep a set of patches
available, and distributions could make alternate bootdisk images for
them. (Or just be like Slackware and include unofficial patches in the
bootdisks without telling anybody. :)

But if you're gonna add it before 2.2.x, then the best time is IMHO
right now, so it gets the most people banging on it.

To my dismay, PnP is fast becoming one of those killer features.
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