[Ouch, I tried to mail this to vger.rutgers.edu again, alan, sorry for
the duplicate mail.]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Some clues here
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.korpse.freeserve.co.uk/hardware/pnp/html/escd.html+eisa+data+format&hl=en
>
>but the original seems to
> Some clues here
> ... escd.html ... escd.rtf
Thanks! I already had the former (but it refers to the EISA
spec for most details) will look for the latter.
Andries
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> My code does something like
>
> /*
> * EISA board N has a 4-byte ID that can be read from 0xNc80-0xNc83
> * return 0 for success, -1 for failure (no EISA card in slot) and
> * 1 when a card is present but still needs to be configured.
> */
> static int
> get_eisa_id(int board, char *id) {
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:16:00AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > What use is knowing that a machine has EISA slots? As far as I can see
> > the only use is to ask for the EISA ID of the card.
> > Should we? I collected 1200 .cfg files and estimate that this is
> > less than 10% of what exists
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:07:22PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote:
> > +EISA support
> > +CONFIG_EISA
> > + The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was
>
> (i) I am a bit unhappy about adding configuration options
> like this. It regularly happens that I want to compile some kernel
Y
Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
>(i) I am a bit unhappy about adding configuration options
>like this. It regularly happens that I want to compile some kernel
>for some machine and have to grep the source and look at the config
>files how to enable something. A machine with RTL-8139? Let me see,
I apolo
Steven Cole wrote:
> Well, the CONFIG_EISA option is there. My little patch was just intended to
> slightly enlighten those prone to "lets see what this option does". I
> compiled test11-pre4 both with and without CONFIG_EISA and the difference is
> very slight. Of course, if you had more items
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:23:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > However, CONFIG_EISA is almost completely superfluous, is not
> > required at compile time, can easily be tested at run time,
> > in other words adding such an option is a very stupid thing to do.
>
> Each d
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>Agreed, for the most part. If you know for sure you don't have an EISA
>machine, you can now disable CONFIG_EISA. IMHO ideally one should be
>able to eliminate code that is useless on all but a small subset of
>working machines.
Well, the CONFIG_EISA option is there. My l
Andries Brouwer wrote:
> However, CONFIG_EISA is almost completely superfluous, is not
> required at compile time, can easily be tested at run time,
> in other words adding such an option is a very stupid thing to do.
Each driver's entry in Config.in should be dependent on its
CONFIG_{ISA,EISA,PC
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:07:22PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote:
> +EISA support
> +CONFIG_EISA
> + The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was
> + developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus.
> +
> + The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM MicroChanne
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