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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 14:05:21 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dfr@nlsystems.com, se@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver
Message-ID:  <199705210435.OAA08935@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <E0wU33f-0006Cf-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "May 20, 97 10:31:27 pm"

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Warner Losh stands accused of saying:
> 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...

Uh, no, this is a problem with the 8514a chipset that the S3 emulates
in that it was desiged for Microchannel but maps down over the "com3/4"
addresses on ISA systems.

> Warner

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