The Linux 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

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 I/O Addresses, etc.
• 2.4 IRQs --Overview
• 2.5 DMA Channels
• 2.6 Memory Ranges
• 2.7 "Resources" to both Device and Driver
• 2.8 The Problem
• 2.9 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 Linux Needs to Cope Better with PnP

4. Configuring 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 Disable PnP ?
• 5.3 BIOS Configures PnP
• 5.4 Isapnp (part of isapnptools)
• 5.5 PCI Utilities
• 5.6 Patch the Kernel to Make Linux PnP
• 5.7 Windows Configures
• 5.8 Device Driver Configures
• 5.9 PnP Software/Documents

6. Tell the Driver the Configuration

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Serial Port Driver: setserial
• 6.3 Sound Card Drivers

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. Appendix

• 8.1 Addresses
• 8.2 Interrupts --Details
• 8.3 PCI Interrupts
• 8.4 Isolation