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30.Dd September 20, 2001
31.Dt PNP 4 i386
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm pnp
35.Nd support for
36.Dq "Plug and Play"
37(PnP) ISA devices
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41driver enumerates ISA devices which support
42.Dq "Plug and Play ISA Specification"
43in the system.
44It assigns ISA bus resources (interrupt line, DMA channel, I/O ports,
45and memory region) to each device and activates it.
46.Pp
47If it cannot assign necessary resources to a PnP ISA device without
48causing conflict with other devices in the system,
49the device will not be activated and will be unavailable
50to programs.
51.Sh CAVEATS
52It is not possible to disable individual PnP ISA devices.
53The
54.Nm
55driver will find all devices conforming the PnP ISA specification
56and try to activate them all.
57.Pp
58There is no way to explicitly assign particular resource to
59the PnP ISA device.
60The resource assignment is fully automatic and there is
61no provision for manual override.
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr pnpbios 4
64.Sh STANDARDS
65.Rs
66.%A Intel
67.%A Microsoft
68.%T "Plug and Play ISA Specification, Version 1.0a"
69.%D "May 5, 1994"
70.Re
71.Pp
72.Rs
73.%T "Clarifications to the Plug and Play ISA Specification, Version 1.0a"
74.%D "December 10, 1994"
75.Re
76.Sh HISTORY
77The
78.Nm
79driver first appeared in
80.Fx 2.2.5 .
81It has been substantially updated in subsequent versions.
82.Sh AUTHORS
83PnP support was originally written
84for
85.Fx 2.2.5
86by
87.An Luigi Rizzo ,
88based on initial work done by
89.An Sujal Patel .
90