Plug-and-Play-HOWTO

David S.Lawyer mailto:dave@lafn.org

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Copyright, Trademarks, Disclaimer, & Credits
• 1.2 Future Plans; You Can Help
• 1.3 New Versions of this HOWTO
• 1.4 New in Recent Versions
• 1.5 General Introduction. Do you need this HOWTO?

2. What PnP Should Do: Allocate "Bus-Resources"

• 2.1 What is Plug-and-Play (PnP)?
• 2.2 How a Computer Finds Devices (and conversely)
• 2.3 Addresses
• 2.4 I/O Addresses and Allocating Them
• 2.5 Memory Ranges
• 2.6 IRQs --Overview
• 2.7 DMA Channels
• 2.8 "Resources" for both Device and Driver
• 2.9 The Problem
• 2.10 PnP Finds Devices Plugged Into Serial Ports

3. The Plug-and-Play (PnP) Solution

• 3.1 Introduction to PnP
• 3.2 How It Works (simplified)
• 3.3 Starting Up the PC
• 3.4 Buses
• 3.5 How Linux Does PnP

4. Setting up a PnP BIOS

• 4.1 Do you have a PnP operating system?
• 4.2 How are bus-resources to be controlled?
• 4.3 Reset the configuration?

5. How to Deal with PnP Cards

• 5.1 Introduction to Dealing with PnP Cards
• 5.2 Device Driver Configures
• 5.3 BIOS Configures PnP
• 5.4 ISA only: Disable PnP ?
• 5.5 Isapnp (part of isapnptools)
• 5.6 PCI Utilities
• 5.7 Windows Configures
• 5.8 PnP Software/Documents

6. Tell the Driver the Configuration

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Serial Port Driver Example
• 6.3 Some Sound Card Driver Examples

7. What Is My Current Configuration?

• 7.1 Boot-time Messages
• 7.2 How Are My Device Drivers Configured?
• 7.3 How Are My Hardware Devices Configured?

8. Error Messages

• 8.1 Unexpected Interrupt
• 8.2 Plug and Play Configuration Error (Dell BIOS)

9. Appendix

• 9.1 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
• 9.2 Address Details
• 9.3 ISA Bus Configuration Addresses (Read-Port etc.)
• 9.4 Interrupts --Details
• 9.5 PCI Interrupts
• 9.6 ISA Isolation