Subject: Re: Multiple busses of the same kind
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/31/2001 14:52:06
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:26:00PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> > Who cares where it's mapped in the CPU's address space... if it's
> > ISA, it has to be compatible with ISA devices, which means it has
> > to conform to certain constraints.
>
> We're failing to communicate... I think they read your comment a few
> messages ago in this thread:
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:23:41PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 12:16:37PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >
> > > True, but then wouldn't both of these isa busses appear in different parts
> > > of the processor's address space?
> > >
> > > Does our isa code deal with isa busses not being at 0-1 MB?
> >
> > Um, that can't happen :-)
>
> as referring to 0-1MB of the CPU address space, not 0-1MB of the PCI
> address space.
All, well, on almost all platforms *OTHER* than the PC, the ISA bus
is in fact not in 0-1MB of CPU address space.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>