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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 SEE ALSO
52.Xr pnpbios 4
53.Sh STANDARDS
54.Rs
55.%A Intel
56.%A Microsoft
57.%T "Plug and Play ISA Specification, Version 1.0a"
58.%D "May 5, 1994"
59.Re
60.Pp
61.Rs
62.%T "Clarifications to the Plug and Play ISA Specification, Version 1.0a"
63.%D "December 10, 1994"
64.Re
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Nm
68driver first appeared in
69.Fx 2.2.5 .
70It has been substantially updated in subsequent versions.
71.Sh AUTHORS
72.An -nosplit
73PnP support was originally written
74for
75.Fx 2.2.5
76by
77.An Luigi Rizzo ,
78based on initial work done by
79.An Sujal Patel .
80.Sh CAVEATS
81It is not possible to disable individual PnP ISA devices.
82The
83.Nm
84driver will find all devices conforming the PnP ISA specification
85and try to activate them all.
86.Pp
87There is no way to explicitly assign particular resource to
88the PnP ISA device.
89The resource assignment is fully automatic and there is
90no provision for manual override.
91