Re: Hardware Prob0r

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, David Schleef wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:55:53PM -0500, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> > Now what to do about ISA devices??  :/  This is a solvable problem too
> > since linux can kind of tell you about all the isapnp devices, but how do
> > I automate scanning all the drivers to figure out which drivers go with
> > which devices.
>
> Good luck.  ISA-PNP works almost the same as PCI in Linux.  However,
> the only device that uses ISA-PNP is the AT-MIO E series, and the driver
> has support for it disabled, since I never got it working.  My only
> remaining computer with ISA slots spends most of it's time off.

Really?  I wasn't sure how many isa boards were in comedi.  Ok if it's
only one thats good news cause I have that board and thus am able to make
special cases for it (by actually testing against it).  I can just use the
ISA-PNP stuff in linux to tell ni_atmio the io ports detected.
Coolness.. :)

>
> Everything else needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis.  I've
> tried to make documentation of the option lists more uniform, but
> that still needs some work.
>
> > Worse still, each driver expects a config string that can
> > be totally irregular from one driver to the next.  I haven't thought about
> > this at all yet.. but how to detect isapnp and map them to the right
> > driver?
>
>
>
> dave...
>

Received on 2003-01-31Z13:51:41