Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist | Date | Sat, 15 Jun 1996 23:48:08 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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> > There is already a project working on ISA PnP. > > Say, isn't PnP made to for specific motherboards (read x86) and operating > system (read Windows 95)? > > Whatever happened to idea that I can buy one card that works for Mac, > Alpha, Sparc, Pentium, PowerPC, etc, etc, etc,???? Reminds me of PCI. > Don't you think PCI Pnp beats the purpose of PCI?
PnP = Plug-and-Play Unfortunately this has come to mean Microsoft/Windows95/x86 :-( It doesn't though! It means plug it in and forget it.
ALL devices can be PnP to some extent. I already have a skeleton for the support of: PnP BIOS, PnP ISA, ISA, EISA, PCI, PCMCIA, MCA, and legacy (non-PnP) systemboard devices. Yes, I'm still catering to x86 devices, as they are the only ones that are really mucked up to the point of absurdity.
My hopes is that one day there will be a fully modular kernel, with one set of boot/root disks for everyone. Of course, being a hater of PnP, everything will be manually configurable too.
I invite everyone with spare time (ya, right) to look at the PnP code, and start hacking. I can't possibly do all that is required on my own, in any reasonable amount of time at least. I've attempted to make a framework for all other code that is not dependent on any other code (example: PnP BIOS works the same as PCI from the view of the kernel).
A patch for kernel v2.0.0 (pnp-patch.10.gz) is available from the PnP web pages. It doesn't do much of anything yet (it is completely harmless), but _does_ add some new and improved features to the kernel (like address space management).
Peter Fox has done a _wonderful_ job developing the 'isapnptools' package. It will get ISA-PnP devices going with existing kernels. The package is mirrored on the PnP 3rd Party Utilities web page. -- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net My home page http://www.redhat.com/~aem/ Linux Plug-and-Play Project Leader. See URL http://www.redhat.com/pnp/
Red Hat Software sponsors these pages - I have no other affilitation with Red Hat Software, and I have never used any of their products.
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