Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 18:24:15 EST


> My code does something like
>
> /*
> * EISA board N has a 4-byte ID that can be read from 0xNc80-0xNc83
> * return 0 for success, -1 for failure (no EISA card in slot) and
> * 1 when a card is present but still needs to be configured.
> */
> static int
> get_eisa_id(int board, char *id) {

This is actually a lot like the MCA bus needs but with a slightly different
API.

Some clues here

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.korpse.freeserve.co.uk/hardware/pnp/html/escd.html+eisa+data+format&hl=en

but the original seems to have gone from korpse 8(

Microsoft have escd.rtf that documents the escd in terms of eisa records thus
gives clues

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