Editing Autoconfig (section)

{{short description|Amiga system for automatically setting up hardware peripherals}}
{{distinguish|GNU Autoconf}}
{{more footnotes|date=August 2008}}
'''Autoconfig''' is an [[auto-configuration]] protocol of [[Amiga]] computers which is intended to automatically assign resources to expansion devices without the need for [[jumper (computing)|jumper]] settings.<ref name="amiga_hardware_ref">{{cite book | last=Miner | first=Jay | authorlink=Jay Miner | title=Amiga Hardware Reference Manual | edition=Third | series=Amiga Technical Reference Series | year=1991 | publisher=Addison-Wesley | isbn=0-201-56776-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/amiga-hardware-reference-manual-3rd-edition}}</ref>  It is analogous to [[PCI Configuration Space|PCI configuration]] through [[Advanced Configuration and Power Interface|ACPI]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.minitool.com/lib/acpi.html |title=What Is ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)? |last=To |first=Acpi |date=3 July 2020 |orig-date=April 29, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://theamigamuseum.com/amiga-kickstart-workbench-os/kickstart/kickstart-1-2/ |title=The Amiga Museum » Kickstart 1.2 |last=Received |first=Intuition |orig-date=April 29, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-29 }}</ref>

Autoconfig is integrated within the Amiga's [[Kickstart (Amiga)|Kickstart]] firmware, usually stored in [[read-only memory|ROM]].
When the system is switched on, [[AmigaOS]] interrogates each expansion device in turn and assigns address space or resources as needed. For example, in the case of a memory card, the OS can dynamically add the memory to the system. Through Autoconfig the OS can access firmware on expansion devices, for example, to boot from a disk connected to a hard disk controller.