Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:35:34 -0600 From: "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> To: "Ketrien I. Saihr-Kenchedra" <ketrien@error404.nls.net> Cc: FreeBSD amd64 List <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SMP support and Tyan S288X boards Message-ID: <41BDEF06.3090103@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <20041213134819.O11921@bahre.achedra.org> References: <20041213075011.K66771@zoraida.natserv.net> <20041213122450.Q1434@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <20041213134819.O11921@bahre.achedra.org>
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Ketrien I. Saihr-Kenchedra wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Chris Dillon wrote: > >> The only thing I did to the custom kernel was add SMP and remove all >> of the drivers for unused stuff, including lots of ISA drivers (but >> not the ISA bus driver, we still need that). Are there really AMD64 >> boards out there with ISA slots? > > > I expect them at some point. But I'm an old hand with IPCs. ;) > > As far as boards that you put in a regular ATX case, no. However, they > still > have an ISA bus wedged in there for attaching SMBus, I2C, and hardware > watchdogs. The industrial control crowd still uses ISA cards. You can look for companies that serve that market, and expect to pay a premium. The system chipset will need some support for ISA to work well due to differences in interrupt behavior. There is other hair too I can't remember offhand. I don't know if the designers of any of the amd64 chipsets built in considerations for ISA.
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