Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:36:31 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, dfr@nlsystems.com, se@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver Message-ID: <199705210206.LAA07693@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199705201746.KAA01647@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 20, 97 10:46:41 am"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > This is not a motherboard problem. This is a card line decoding problem. > > > > Agreed, however many modern motherboards work around it by only forwarding > > accesses in the 0x100-0x400 range to the ISA bus. > > Urgle. > > It's not the responsibility of a mother board to dothis to make it > a "good motherboard". Not "good" perhaps, but "sensible given the alternatives". > For a real fix, have a bonfire with all the ISA cards in your town. Burning them is less fun than many of the alternatives. I have been known to sell them to artistically naive members of the drug set for as much as ten times their market value; I believe there is a "techno-goth" (their terms) household around here that still has a matched set of flying CGA cards on their wall. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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