From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 20 21:32:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA17092 for current-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 21:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA17086; Tue, 20 May 1997 21:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wU33f-0006Cf-00; Tue, 20 May 1997 22:31:27 -0600 To: Michael Smith Subject: Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), se@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 May 1997 22:47:07 +0930." <199705201317.WAA02812@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199705201317.WAA02812@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 22:31:27 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199705201317.WAA02812@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes: : It means that "ISA" instances of a device can only be expected in the : range 0x100-0x400, but that if the motherboard chipset is broken or : old, probes at higher multiples of the device's address may still show : it up. This is not normally a problem, as you only go above there for : EISA/PCI devices. I know that my 8-bit serial cards show up at the same address that my 16bit S3 uses, so I can't have a cua3 on this machine.... The 8bit card doesn't have the address lines to decode things any other way... Warner