Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 18:41:38 -0700 From: Mike Muir <mmuir@es.co.nz> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vga0, atkbdc0, fdc0 attaching to ISA bus? Message-ID: <398E13D2.C3D754CA@es.co.nz> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008061654080.64610-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > > >Anyone know why these devices want to attach to the ISA bus on a primarily > >PCI bus machine? My MoBo is an Asus SP97-V, which has a mixture of ISA > >and PCI slots. I was wondering maybe if even machines that have all PCI > >slots, that there's still an internal ISA bus? Check out my dmesg. > > I've got a machine with an Abit SL6 w/ AGP/PCI/CNR onboard, but no ISA > slots, and it still has an ISA to PCI bridge built in. Some of the > devices still register with the kernel on the ISA bus, even though they > are quite obviously connected to the PCI bus. I suspect that some of > these devices may be tied to the ISA bus in the BIOS for arcane PC/AT > reasons. I would be interested to know details though, if someone could > spare a moment to give an over-the-top explanation of why this is true. I'm working on a little util similar to pciconf -l right now.. but using a large array of vendor/device strings for the id's.. Does pciconf -l display those devices as being part of the PCI bus or are they out of the picture completely? -mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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