Is linux a plug and play OS?

[Sean Middleditch]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:47, Scott Becker wrote:
> Several times I've had difficultys bringing up eth0 after an OS install 
> and found that setting "Plug and play OS" to "no" in the bios setup 
> would cause Kudzu to find the nic and everything worked. This helped 
> with 3 diffenent nics, including a 3c905c with rh9 and a sound card.
> 
> Is far as I can tell the bios was assigning an IRQ and/or IO address 
> after I made the change so that the device was ready for linux (kudzu) 
> to use. Does linux normally handle this or does the bios need to set 
> this way normally?

This is normal behaviour; currently, Linux is not Plug-n-Play compatible
in a couple ways.  I'm not sure on the technical details.

Iirc, Linux kernel 2.6 should be fully Plug-n-Play compatible, and can
have the PnP BIOS option set.

Note this doesn't mean Linux can't be "plug and play" now, only that the
specific Plug-n-Play BIOS features don't work quite right.

>     Scott Becker
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