From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 11:39:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA26011 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:39:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA26005 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:39:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA08605; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:38:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:38:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Rob Schofield cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel configs In-Reply-To: <199702181514.QAA31591@mccomm.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Rob Schofield wrote: > So here's the question; can I specify only the eisa? controller and > have it control devices formerly under the isa? controller, or do I > need to have both in there as seperate bus controllers, with the isa > controller code probing and handling the ISA bus stuff and the eisa > probing and handling the EISA cards? You could try it, but my guess would be no, that wouldn't work since base code from the ISA bus wouldn't carry over to the eisa case. ISA is a core part of the PC architecture and all sorts of goodies could be hidden in there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major