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27.\" $FreeBSD$
28.Dd September 20, 2001
29.Dt PNPBIOS 4 i386
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm pnpbios
33.Nd support for embedded devices on the motherboard
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37driver enumerates embedded ISA devices on the motherboard whose BIOS
38supports
39.Dq "Plug and Play BIOS Specification" .
40It assigns ISA bus resources (interrupt line, DMA channel, I/O ports,
41and memory region) to each device and activates it.
42.Pp
43If it cannot assign necessary resources to a device without
44causing conflict with other devices in the system,
45the device will not be activated and will be unavailable
46to programs.
47.Sh SEE ALSO
48.Xr pnp 4
49.Sh STANDARDS
50.Rs
51.%A Compaq
52.%A Phenix
53.%A Intel
54.%T "Plug and Play BIOS Specification Version 1.0A"
55.%D May 5, 1994
56.Re
57.Pp
58.Rs
59.%A Compaq
60.%A Phenix
61.%A Intel
62.%T "Plug and Play BIOS CLARIFICATION Paper for Plug and Play BIOS Specification Version 1.0A"
63.%D October 6, 1994
64.Re
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Nm
68driver first appeared in
69.Fx 4.0 .
70.Sh AUTHORS
71The
72.Nm
73driver was written by
74.An Mike Smith .
75.Sh CAVEATS
76There is no explicit way to disable individual embedded devices.
77The
78.Nm
79driver will find all devices reported by the
80.Dq "Plug and Play (PnP)"
81BIOS and try to activate them all.
82.Pp
83There is no way to explicitly assign particular resource to a device.
84The resource assignment is fully automatic and there is
85no provision for manual override.
86