From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 16 17:44:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA21401 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genghis.eng.demon.net (genghis.eng.demon.net [193.195.45.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA21395 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genghis.eng.demon.net [193.195.45.10] by genghis.eng.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0woefS-0000YF-00; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 01:43:38 +0100 To: Steve Passe cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Reply-To: ade@demon.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:39:23 MDT." <199707162339.RAA10636@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 01:43:38 +0100 From: Ade Lovett Message-Id: Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Passe writes: > >again, I'm NOT eliminating EISA hardware, just NON bus-mastering EISA cards >that do DMA via the chipset DMA registers. So far no one has reported using >such beasts... Yep, I understand that :) Just wanted to make absolutely certain that the proposed changes don't ge somewhat out of hand and end up losing EISA completely (much as we'd all *like* it to go :) On a related note, can someone explain to a PC-hardware ignoramus (ie, me :) why no-one makes completely PCI-based motherboards, say with 7 or 8 slots? [perhaps this question should move over to -hackers?] -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Demon Internet Ltd.