SMP support and Tyan S288X boards

[Chris Dillon]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, James R. Van Artsalen wrote:

> The industrial control crowd still uses ISA cards.  You can look for 
> companies that serve that market, and expect to pay a premium.

Sure, but will they ever be running FreeBSD/amd64 while using ISA 
cards?  :-)

I'm thinking that ISA slots will be so exceedingly rare on AMD64 
systems from now until the end of time that putting the drivers for 
things like ISA NICs and SCSI controllers into the amd64 GENERIC 
kernel is unnecessary.

> The system chipset will need some support for ISA to work well due 
> to differences in interrupt behavior.  There is other hair too I 
> can't remember offhand.  I don't know if the designers of any of the 
> amd64 chipsets built in considerations for ISA.

Yes, I realize that support for the ISA bus is still currently 
required even with no ISA slots.


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