Is linux a plug and play OS?

[Bill Nottingham]

Scott Becker (scottb at bxwa.com) said: 
> 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 this with Severn or 9? There was some unneeded code removed after
9 shipped that would cause this.

> 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?

Resources are assigned when pci_enable_device() (or whatever the kernel
function is, I forget) is called, if they aren't set before.

Bill