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Date:      Wed, 05 Nov 1997 15:26:05 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Libretto 50 - US Version and PAO 
Message-ID:  <995.878739965@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Nov 1997 22:20:27 %2B1030." <199711051150.WAA00523@word.smith.net.au> 

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In message <199711051150.WAA00523@word.smith.net.au>, Mike Smith writes:
>> >> Well, from my reading of things, yes; I can't actually see anything 
>> >> that the card itself could actually be using to determine where it's 
>> >> actually mapped.  It sounds like the configuration entries are 
>> >> basically junk there for the convenience of lazy DOS driver authors.
>> 
>> Not quite.  There are two kinds of mappings, one where the pcic does all
>> the work and one where the card does the work.  The latter kind should
>> be used for leveling driveways with, but that is nontheless the reason
>> for 80% of the CIS complexity.
>
>Well, from looking at the current pcic driver sources I can't see how a 
>mapped-at-zero card could work with what we have.  That would tend to 
>imply to me that while they are supported by the CIS design, there 
>ain't too many of them around.

true, but you have to support them anyway to be "compliant" :-(

>How far off the mark am I?  And is there a decent, non-expensive, 
>reference to the CIS structure anywhere?

Not really.  I paid a small fortune for my copy of the badly written
standard :-(

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."



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