Hello,

> > - the chip uses an I2O bus to talk to other components - is there an
> > easy way to identify I2O slaves by name or do I have to rely on their
> > bus addresses and just probe all of them?
> 
> On I2O RAID controllers under netbsd it seems to be able to figure out
> devices by type code. Maybe Jason would know since I think he cowrote some
> of the I2O subsystem.

I saw some I2O code in the NetBSD kernel - mainly to talk to real time clocks, maybe I can recycle some of this code. The SAA7110 seens to have a hard-wired bus address ( well, you can choose between 2 addresses by pulling some pin low or leaving it alone, I think that still qualifies as hard-wired )
So - can I assume that a specific I2O device on a video board will always have the same address or is this just a (mis)feature of the SAA7110?

have fun
Michael