Subject: Re: PCIC: PCI vs. ISA
To: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/25/1998 22:59:03
>I'm trying to support the PCIC PCI attachment "correctly".  I've been
>studying the PCIC code, looking at stuff that Dan Winship sent me, and
>trying some stuff on my own.  In particular, I'm looking at the
>CL-PD6729.  The BIOS doesn't write anything into the Interrupt Line
>byte of the PCI Interrupt Register of the 6729, so I'd like to
>allocate a free IRQ for its use.  However I won't know what IRQs are
>free until after all the ISA devices are configured.

Is this the only PCIC PCI chip?  All of the ones I've seen are CardBus.
And it's _really_ weird that you don't have an ISA IRQ assigned to
your card, because that should have already been done for you.

This isn't a "Plug and Play OS" issue by any chance, is it?

--Ken