Michael Schmitz dixit:
>Thanks for explaining this to me - to be honest I've never cared too
>much about ISA and friends.
No problem. (I practically grew up with them, so while the knowledge
isn’t fresh, some is there.)
>I'll check the layout - my guess would be that there's no memory
>read/write selects wired up on the adapter. The RTL8019 doesn't need
>them, the ISP1160 on the NetUSBee doesn't need them either.
I’d guess the same. You’d need them for things like an ISA graphics
card, but not (most) I/O devices.
>If someone ever comes up with a way to hook up a fully featured ISA
>slot to the ROM port (mapping ports 0x00 to 0x7f to IO and above to
>mem access should be possible) we might revisit the code. For now,
>anything except for 8 bit IO can be turned into dummy functions or
>compile warnings.
Might be nice, if possible. But for now, that would indeed be
the way to go (and clean up code).
bye,
//mirabilos
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