Re: What ISA hardware is integrated into m68k bridges

[Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>]

On 12-05-20 05:10 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Paul Gortmaker
> <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
>> Hi Geert,
>>
>> A discussion is underway with respect to the future of the various ISA
>> drivers[1], and Alan suggested checking with the m68k folks:
>>
>>  Check with the M68K people however. 3c501 won't matter to them but I'm
>>  not sure which of the other chips ended up on Amiga ISA bridges. I know
>>  NE2000 clones did.
>>
>> I know you've currently got that "almost ne2k" driver that runs IRQ-less.  Are
>> there other "ISA-like" onboard devices in the M68k harware scope that rely on
>> existing (x86) ISA drivers?
> 
> Not sure it's still considered ISA based in its current state, but the
> smc91x is another one used on Atari. That one's got an interrupt
> though, and I had confirmation that it works fine from a user just a
> few days ago.
> 
> You mentioned the IRQ-less ne2k already - making that one run on
> netpoll has stalled for now because I'm too busy at work. Neither
> driver has been merged mainstream yet.
> 
> Most of the Amiga cards are 8390 or Lance based IIRC (there's a Lance
> based Atari driver as well!) but these do not share code with the ISA
> Lance drivers as far as I can see. Geert may know more details.

Thanks Michael for the level headed on-topic reply, I appreciate
it.  That smc is used by 20-odd arm defconfigs, so it really isn't
valid to consider it as a stand alone ISA card used just by older
x86 hardware with ISA bus.  In fact I'm not sure it ever shipped as
a standalone ISA card...

Paul.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   Michael