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Subject: PCI 2.1 Byte Enables?
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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 23:20:08 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi, 

I am writing a device driver for a PCI video capture board,
Brooktree Bt848,as part of  a dma risc instruction it requires :
byte count and 4 bits for PCI byte enables.

Can anyone guess what the PCI byte enables are for?

Supposedley, the Bt848 is PCI 2.1 compliant.

I have the databook for the Bt848 however it does not explain
what the PCI byte enables field is for.

I will probably contact again Brooktree next week if no one
here knows what the field is for.

	Tnks,
	Amancio