... The term Plug-and-Play (PnP) has various meanings. ... In the sense used in this HOWTO, the configuration is only that of configuring PnP bus-resources and letting the device drivers know about it. ... For the case of Linux, it is often just a driver giving a command to set the bus-resources in it's device or determining how the BIOS has set them. ... Linux still is not really a PnP operating system and seems to mainly rely on and device drivers and the PnP BIOS to configure bus-resources for...