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