Subject: Re: kern/11627
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: David Querbach <querbach@realtime.bc.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 01/31/2001 15:14:23
> (What about PCI-ISA busses in non-i386 machines, then? Do we treat
> them the same way? I'm pretty sure such things do exist...)
They definitely do. For example, my MBX821 PowerPC board has:
Host bus PCI bus ISA bus
CPU <--------> Host-PCI <-------> PCI-ISA <-------> ISA
bridge bridge devices
>
> > (I'm in favor of ripping out "isa* at pcib?" and "isa* at pceb?" and
> > just leaving "isa0 at mainbus0", since the former two give the
> > not-very-useful impression that the entire ISA bus is behind them.)
Only in i386, I presume? In my case, the ISA bus _is_ behind pcib.
Regards,
David Querbach
Real-Time Systems Inc.