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31.\" $FreeBSD$
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33.Dd September 20, 2001
34.Dt PNP 4 i386
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm pnp
38.Nd support for ``Plug and Play'' (PnP) ISA devices
39.\" .Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43driver enumerates ISA devices which support
44``Plug and Play ISA Specification'' in the system.
45It assigns ISA bus resources (interrupt line, DMA channel, I/O ports,
46and memory region) to each device and activates it.
47.Pp
48If it cannot assign necessary resources to a PnP ISA device without
49causing conflict with other devices in the system,
50the device will not be activated and will be unavailable
51to programs.
52.Pp
53.Sh CAVEAT
54It is not possible to disable individual PnP ISA devices.
55The
56.Nm
57driver will find all devices conforming the PnP ISA specification
58and try to activate them all.
59.Pp
60There is no way to explicitly assign particular resource to
61the PnP ISA device.
62The resource assignment is fully automatic and there is
63no provision for manual override.
64.Sh SEE ALSO
65.Xr pnpbios 4
66.Pp
67.Sh STANDARDS
68.Rs
69.%A Intel
70.%A Microsoft
71.%T ``Plug and Play ISA Specification, Version 1.0a''
72.%D May 5, 1994
73.Re
74.Pp
75.Rs
76.%T ``Clarifications to the Plug and Play ISA Specification, Version 1.0a''
77.%D December 10, 1994
78.Re
79.Sh AUTHORS
80PnP support was originally written
81for
82.Fx 2.2.5
83by
84.An Luigi Rizzo ,
85based on initial work done by
86.An Sujal Patel .
87.Sh HISTORY
88The
89.Nm
90driver first appeared in
91.Fx 2.2.5 .
92It has been substantially updated in subsequent versions.
93