From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 8 20:47:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDAC14BDD for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id MAA21633; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:45:09 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <370D774B.1DC704C5@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:43:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa , Nate Williams , Ted Faber , Nick Sayer , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any success with CirrusLogic 6729/6730??? References: <199904081938.MAA01072@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > ISA refers to the electrical bus used to connect to the device. Most > modern PCICs are actually compatability-mode implementations inside > PCI-connected devices. > > More significantly, however, the issue is "the PCIC does not need to be > treated as an ISA device", and "it is more useful to treat the PCIC as > a bridge between the nexus and the PCCARD bus". > > Treating the PCIC like an ISA device just makes things more difficult. Just to clear a doubt here, it seems they were talking about the PCIC *bus* being an ISA device, not a pcmcia card. You are talking about the same thing, right? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message