>>>>> "David" == David  <David@ixibbs.iximd.com> writes:

  David> Well am I right if I say, build an ISA/IDE bus then 1. you don't need
  David> drivers for the ISA bus just the hardware sitting on it.

Nope, the other way around.  :-)  If you attach hardware devices for
which there already is a machine independent driver in NetBSD, you
don't need to write a new driver.  You do need to write a driver for
the bus though, to tell NetBSD that it exists and how to access it.


  // Marcus