On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:14:57PM -0400, Matt Herzog wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> For years (literally) I laboured under the mistaken idea that
> apm0 would show up as a device in dmesg 

-( when booting a generic kernel )- 

> if my machine's APM was supported in NetBSD. Since I was wrong 
> about this, could  I also be wrong about pnpbios? "apm0 at mainbus" 
> never shows up anywhere in dmesg ( in any generic kernel I have seen )
> so perhaps "pnpbios at mainbus" never does either.
> 
> In my BIOS, I have answered NO to the option where I can tell
> the BIOS that my OS is a pnp OS. Is NetBSD ever a pnp OS as
> far as any pc BIOS is concerned? 

By telling the BIOS I have a PNP OS, don't I give NetBSD a freer 
reign in controlling hardware resources?

-- 
Matthew Herzog

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