Brian Gerst writes:
> This is an artifact from the ISA 10-bit IO bus. Many ISA cards do not
> decode all 16 address bits so you get aliases of the 0x100-0x3ff region
> throughout IO space. PCI cards should only use the first 256 ports of
> any 1k block to avoid aliases unless they claim the base alias. For
> example, all the xxe8 addresses for the S3 are aliases of 0x02e8 to an
> ISA card. Video cards are an exception to the general rule because they
> have to support all the legacy VGA crap.
No. All xxe8 addresses access specific registers. For example:
0x9ea8 is the drawing command
0xa2e8 is the background colour register
0xa6e8 is the foreground colour register
So, as you see they aren't aliases.
> /*
> * We need to avoid collisions with `mirrored' VGA ports
> * and other strange ISA hardware, so we always want the
> * addresses to be allocated in the 0x000-0x0ff region
> * modulo 0x400.
> *
> * Why? Because some silly external IO cards only decode
> * the low 10 bits of the IO address. The 0x00-0xff region
> * is reserved for motherboard devices that decode all 16
> * bits, so it's ok to allocate at, say, 0x2800-0x28ff,
> * but we want to try to avoid allocating at 0x2900-0x2bff
> * which might have be mirrored at 0x0100-0x03ff..
> */
Ah ha, I'll nick that for the ARM stuff then. Thanks for pointing it out.
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