From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 08:25:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA22164 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (word.smith.net.au [202.0.75.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA22157 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA04395; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:52:28 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709251522.AAA04395@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), sos@sos.freebsd.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INB question In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:44:27 GMT." <199709191444.HAA06050@usr07.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:52:28 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > This isn't the MCA configuration information; this is the BIOS > > hardware table. I mean the soft configuration information that you > > mung with the config disk. > > I have no idea where that lives; I haven't even gotten around to > building an EISA config under UNIX (I at least know where that > data lives, and the format of the .INF files). I doubt you will > be able to get rid of the DOS configuration tool for MCA any time > soon. The EISA config is actually the root of the ESCD storage, which I still have hopes of using at some stage. > > > Yeah; that's why I picked the extended MCA DMA ports for the detect; > > > that, and I can do the probe non-destructively, with the expectation of > > > a 0 bit in my data and no hardware configuratio changes resulting. > > > > Where is the port exactly? ie. is it likely to be sat on or masked > > over by an ISA device? > > Port 0x18 is the control, and port 0x1A is the data. Should be OK, from a cursory inspection. mike