Read at least the mindshare books on ISA and PCI. Let me warn you that the mindshare books are very complementary and for one to be able to fully grasp their content you really should buy and read them all. This will set you back a few hundred $$$ but it is the de-facto standard on PC architecture. FWIW, PnP is dead and no longer relevant. It made sense in the old ISA + PCI days but now it really is redundant. If you read some books that I'll link you to and read the PnP spec you might actually get what its all about.
Examples: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201309742/qid=1126929191/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201409968/qid=1126929191/sr=8-14/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i7_xgl14/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Some other very valuable reading: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201479508/qid=1126929494/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201398583/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201596164/qid=1126929659/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5807367-4514550?v=glance&s=books /marco On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:31:49PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:03:32 -0400 (EDT), Ted Unangst > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > >> I realize the BIOS/CMOS setting "Plug and Play OS" on x86 has > >> something to do with boot time configuration of hardware (usually > >> resource allocation on PCI cards and such) but I'm really not certain > >> how this setting interacts with OpenBSD? > > > >set it to no. > > Thanks Ted. That's what I've always done with OBSD but it seems I > wasn't very clear; I'm mainly looking to learn about how the PnP BIOS > setting works (i.e. just curious and wondering why it's only used by > microsoft OS's). > > I've glanced through the "Plug and Play BOIS Specification v1.0a" and > the "Simple Boot Flag Specification v2.1" provided by Microsoft but > I'm yet to figure out what exactly is gained by configuring devices > with the OS versus configuring devices with the BIOS firmware? > > Any chance you could point me towards any half decent docs or debate? > > Thanks, > JCR
