From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 6 20:27:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FE537BC4D for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 20:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA84908; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:27:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA28643; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:26:53 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008070326.VAA28643@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: vga0, atkbdc0, fdc0 attaching to ISA bus? Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:23:13 MDT." <200008070323.VAA28590@harmony.village.org> References: <200008070323.VAA28590@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:26:53 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200008070323.VAA28590@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: : The reason you have a ISA to PCI bridge still is that the serial : ports, parallel ports, floppy, keyboard and mouse devices still live : on the ISA bus. They aren't full PCI nodes just yet in most hardware : designs (I've yet to see a floppy, keyboard or mouse on the pci bus, : but I'm sure people will tell me where I can find such beasts). I should have also added: Even though there are no ISA expansion slots on your machine, you still have an ISA bus living inside (unless it is a legacy free machine we keep hearing about, which I didn't think was on the market). The PC-99 standard (not to be confused with the Japanese PC-98 machines) states that you cannot have a ISA expansion slot, but a later clarification to the standard states clearly that you can still have ISA devices built into the mother board. In other words, No ISA slots doesn't necessarily mean that the machine doesn't have an ISA bus. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message