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Hi, On Wednesday 02 January 2002 21:15, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Is there any way to safely probe a PCI motherboard to determine whether > or not it has ISA cards present, or ISA card slots? > > Note: the question is *not* about a probe for whether the board has an ISA > bridge, but a probe for the presence of actual ISA cards (or slots). > > (Yes, I'm working on a smart autoconfigurator. It's a development of > Giacomo Catenazzi's code, but able to use the CML2 deduction engine.) Nope, AFAIK even if the motherboard dosn't have ISA-Slots, the ISA-like chipset (DMA/old IRQ/Timer) is still present because off compatiblity reasons. But if you only want to know if a specified IO-range is on an ISA-card you could try to turn off the PCI-ISA brige, done this with Intel chipset before (they call this power saveing mode). MfG, Christian König. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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