From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 6 18:41:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mike.dhis.org (hiper1-d176.stk.cwnet.com [209.142.56.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4925437BCCC for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmuir@es.co.nz) Received: from es.co.nz (ogre.lan [192.168.100.1]) by mike.dhis.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E21DA; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <398E13D2.C3D754CA@es.co.nz> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 18:41:38 -0700 From: Mike Muir Reply-To: mmuir@es.co.nz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vga0, atkbdc0, fdc0 attaching to ISA bus? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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