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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: 8bit/16bit conflicts on ISA
Date: 4 Aug 1993 12:19:13 +0200
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In article <CB7026.M5B@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, rb6775@ehsn18.cen.uiuc.edu (Rafal Krzysztof Boni) writes:
|> 	2. Could someone re-explain to me the reasons why each 128K range can
|> 	only have 8 bit ROMs or 16 bit ROMs?? [This is I assume, what is causing
|> 	the problems]

The basic problem seems to be the stupid junky architecture :-(

|> 	3. How was this problem solved for the WD 8013 in a similar situation??

I seem to recall someone posted a driver for elite ethernet cards very
recently and the README said that problem was worked around by re-setting some
state just before the kernel exit.

-Bernard