On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:04:06PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > ralf> Aside of that I don't think we'll have any alternative to do > ralf> something along the lines of your patch. There are for example > ralf> systems where the high 8 bits of the I/O or memory address on > ralf> the ISA bus are supplied in a separate register of the chipset, > ralf> not as part of the memory address itself. It's really > ralf> remarkable how much bad taste some hardware designers have ... > > So, what should we do for these tasteless hardware? Punish it's developers with fish and chips [1]. > Is there any suggestions? (please don't say "Do not eat" ...) Not a bad idea in context of fish and chips. Well, talk to it's developers before it's too late. Or as it has already happened for some hardware I think we should simply go with your suggestion and make all those functions vectors. Ralf [1] Unavoidable part of the Australian experience
