Re: 3c90x drivers

[Marty Connor <mdc@thinguin.org>]

On 1/20/2000 12:09 PM markus@gutschke.com Markus Gutschke wrote:
>For PnP cards, etherboot would have to run full PnP discovery and
>configuration. This is not incredibly difficult, but it is inherently
>less reliable than accessing non-PnP cards. 

I'm getting confused. For the 3C90x series we're talking about PCI cards, 
which as I understand it are all "PnP".  Could this be some PCI 2.x 
compatibility switch setting or something?  If this were ISA cards I'd 
understand more, but I thought that by the time Etherboot gets a PCI 
card, the IRQ and I/O range were set.  That's what my BIOS seems to do, 
even though I select "PNP Operating System installed".  I've also got 
lots of PCI/PnP options with which I can reserve IRQs if I need to.

I'd very much appreciate any light you could shed on this.  I was hoping 
PCI would make life simpler and more robust because the assignment work 
was done already for us.

Regards,

Marty

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