Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:38:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa <y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any success with CirrusLogic 6729/6730??? Message-ID: <199904092238.PAA00883@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:43:07 %2B0900." <370D774B.1DC704C5@newsguy.com>
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> 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
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