SMP support and Tyan S288X boards

Dave Feustel dfeustel at verizon.net
Mon Dec 13 12:01:49 PST 2004


On Monday 13 December 2004 02:35 pm, 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.
> 
> 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.

Arstech (www.arstech.com) sells  usb[12]-to-isa  adapters that allow
passive isa buses to be driven via usb. They have *said* that they
will have unix drivers, but I have no idea when. 


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