From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 16 08:02:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24129 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.aussie.org (hallam.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.54.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24122 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlnn4@oaks.com.au) Received: from bigbox (frankenputer.aussie.org [203.29.75.73]) by mail.aussie.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id BAA22369 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:02:00 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199809161502.BAA22369@mail.aussie.org> From: "Hallam Oaks P/L list account" To: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:01:39 +1000 Reply-To: "Hallam Oaks P/L list account" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Standard (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 'struct isa_device' advice sought Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:47:12 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: >On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 10:24:39PM +1000, Hallam Oaks P/L list account wrote: >> My question is this : is the concept of a PCI card masquerading (in >> a limited sense) as an ISA one a legitimate approach ? Is it likely >> to cause problems ? I know it's a kludge but the alternative is >> also not particularly desirable. > >The alternative is particularly desireable, and I hope to get time to >fix it Real Soon Now. It is also necessary to be able to get a clean >integration of the PnP code (which I have a hacky intergration of >now). ok, from an architecture point of view it's desirable, but recoding all of that section to suit PCI (in a consistent manner such that it integrates cleanly with the rest of i4b) is probably too much for me to bite off right now. I simply don't have a good enough grasp of the i4b package as a whole to do it intelligently :) Nevertheless ... I have a card I need to get going. What do you suggest ? Is the isa masquerading going to be more trouble than it's worth ? -- Chris Hallam Oaks P/L To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message