Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:59:31 +0000 (UTC) | From | Adam Fritzler <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Proper MCA detection for AHA-1640 |
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You'll find when you look at the code that initialization is done simultaneously with ISA probing. Its Not Nice. I guess getting rid of the four card limit as well. You can support six of these in MCA machines.
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Adam Fritzler wrote: > > > > > I am not specifically away of any MCA+ISA machines, I just figured there > > probably had to be one out there somewhere. I am not familiar enough with > > IBM's older lines to say for sure. > > None of IBM's models have MCA+ISA, their PC-Server 720 does have MCA+PCI, > however. > > > The probing code in aha1542 actually should be redesigned a bit, IMHO. I > > think the ISA PnP support was just pasted in, and it was clearly not in > > the original design of the detection routine. > > Maybe, maybe not. Then again, why bother about nice design for ISA, when > ISA obviously isn't designed nicely to begin with... :^) > > But seriously, I'll do something about it, to make sure that the ISA-probe > is skipped if (MCA_bus) ... > > > /David > _ _ > // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander \\ > // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // > \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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