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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