2 # Plug and Play configuration
5 menu "Plug and Play support"
8 bool "Plug and Play support"
10 Plug and Play (PnP) is a standard for peripherals which allows those
11 peripherals to be configured by software, e.g. assign IRQ's or other
12 parameters. No jumpers on the cards are needed, instead the values
13 are provided to the cards from the BIOS, from the operating system,
14 or using a user-space utility.
16 Say Y here if you would like Linux to configure your Plug and Play
17 devices. You should then also say Y to all of the protocols below.
18 Alternatively, you can say N here and configure your PnP devices
19 using user space utilities such as the isapnptools package.
24 bool "PnP Debug Messages"
27 Say Y if you want the Plug and Play Layer to print debug messages.
28 This is useful if you are developing a PnP driver or troubleshooting.
34 bool "ISA Plug and Play support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
35 depends on PNP && EXPERIMENTAL
37 Say Y here if you would like support for ISA Plug and Play devices.
38 Some information is in <file:Documentation/isapnp.txt>.
43 bool "Plug and Play BIOS support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
44 depends on PNP && EXPERIMENTAL
46 Linux uses the PNPBIOS as defined in "Plug and Play BIOS
47 Specification Version 1.0A May 5, 1994" to autodetect built-in
48 mainboard resources (e.g. parallel port resources).
50 Some features (e.g. event notification, docking station information,
51 ISAPNP services) are not used.
53 Note: ACPI is expected to supersede PNPBIOS some day, currently it
56 See latest pcmcia-cs (stand-alone package) for a nice "lspnp" tools,
57 or have a look at /proc/bus/pnp.