<tm_wanka@earthling.net (Thomas Michael Wanka) writes:

> On 20 Oct 2000, at 15:19, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> 
> > It occurs to me that a way to deal with all of the multiple-pseudo-ISA
> > buses would simply be to ignore them
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this thread made me wonder if multiple PCI and ISA busses are 
> supported by NetBSD in general or if such problems are limited to 
> kind of *broken* structures like notebooks (I do not intend to offend 
> someone, but to my experience portables seem to be a playground  
> for developers to do weired things).

Multiple PCI buses are fine and we support them, both in the case of
PCI buses behind PCI-PCI bridges and multiple processor-PCI bridges.

I don't know of any i386 machines with legitmate multiple ISA buses
and we wouldn't have any support for them there. On architectures with
less legacy attachment to the ISA bus, I could see multiple ISA buses
being possible, but again I'm not aware of any systems, and would be
somewhat surprised to find such a thing.

        - Nathan