Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 19:45:24 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa isa.h Message-ID: <199506140945.TAA30366@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Remove bogus comments about com ports having i/o size 4. >What was the reference document for this??? I was the one who sio.c. It accesses the 8 xx(x)50 registers at linear offsets from the base port. >put that comment in there, and it comes from no less than IBM >documents itself. The fact is PS/2 class machines only have 4 >addresses for COM ports, and can have a com port at 0x3fc!! >> The i/o sizes are unreliable because of split address ranges >> for many devices (VGA, wd). >VGA??? Maybe if you consider the fact that the ``syscons'' driver >should be split so that we don't have both the VGA ports and the >Keyboard ports all in one driver (along with a ton of architecual >reasons to split this out). Splitting wouldn't help much. Beeping belongs in the output part of the driver. VGAs have the follow scattered ports according to an old book by Ferraro: PC/AT card Global Enable 46E8 w/o # sometimes decoded as 2E8 PC/AT all Card Enable 102 r/w # I don't remember seeing this Standard VGA 3C0-3CF Standard VGA Feature Control 3BA/3DA # mono/color (nearby ports too?) Standard VGA CRTC 3B4-5/3D4-5 # mono/color (nearby ports too?) ... Then there are individual cards, more modern cards (SVGAs) and older cards (CGAs, HGCs). 3B0-3DF covers most of the addresses (not 102, 46E8, or 4BC4-5 (V7VGA Cache Control)). 3B0-3DF is the best that can be done in isa.h. It only overlaps LPT3. In fact, isa.h already describes this range in 3 pieces of size 16 (MDA/CGA/VGA) but nothing uses the definitions. Config files don't use the definitions because a combined range is wanted and the keyboard and screen addresses can't both be configured. syscons doesn't use them - it prefers its own defines for almost everything. >Pretty much I created the current content of that file from official >IBM documentation for the XT, AT, and PS/2 family. IBM hasn't been setting PC standards since about 1990. This is more clear now than 1993. Bruce
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