Subject: Re: ISA direct config of ACPI devices
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/23/2007 21:51:38
david@l8s.co.uk said:
> On an i386/i486 system you can set one of the motherboard DMA channels
> into 'cascade mode'.  Then the ISA peripheral is responsible for
> putting the address out onto the ISA bus. However I'm not at all
> certain than any modern systems support this. 

The LPC bus does explicitely not support this.
As I see it, one can't connect a classical ISA bus to LPC.

best regards
Matthias




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