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