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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4251 comp.os.386bsd.development:982 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news 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 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <23o2f1$pms@Germany.EU.net> References: <CB7026.M5B@news.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net 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