Re: 2.2.0 wishlist

Hasdi R Hashim (hasdi@engin.umich.edu)
Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:10:13 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I don't know if this has mentioned, or even if it belongs in the kernel.
> > (So please, no flaming :-). I think it would be nice to have better support
> > for Plug'N'Pray cards. These days, this is all that some vendors will
> > manufacture.
>
> There is already a project working on ISA PnP.

Say, isn't PnP made to for specific motherboards (read x86) and operating
system (read Windows 95)?

Whatever happened to idea that I can buy one card that works for Mac,
Alpha, Sparc, Pentium, PowerPC, etc, etc, etc,???? Reminds me of PCI.
Don't you think PCI Pnp beats the purpose of PCI?

Regards

Hasdi