From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Apr 9 15:43:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C606B14DD2 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:43:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00883; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199904092238.PAA00883@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Mike Smith , NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa , Nate Williams , Ted Faber , Nick Sayer , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any success with CirrusLogic 6729/6730??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:43:07 +0900." <370D774B.1DC704C5@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:38:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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? No. The PCCARD bus is not an ISA device, nor is it an ISA bus. But I was referring to the pcic device itself, which is also not an ISA device. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message