Re: DOS2linux

[Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart.Vandewoestyne@pandora.be>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Oh god, thats the deep magic EISA weirdness department

*gnarf* ;-)  Not good for a beginner like me I assume? :-(

> Well actually its one of those things that needs writing cleanly but
> currently appears in its own form in some EISA drivers

Hmm... with 'writing cleanly' you mean that there should become things
available like eisa_register_device() etc...?

> EISA slots are I/O mapped at 0x1000, 0x2000, 0x3000, 0x4000 -> 0x8000
> The ID port is at base+0xc80
> Configuration data follows at base+0xc84, 0xc88 ...

Yep, that was also what I figured out.

> I would assume the 320 byte buffer is providing this same data block, and
> maybe more but I don't know the details.

That is also what I think, but the problem is that I don't know at
which offset to look for that data...
If you look at the code:

static int getslotinfo( void )
{
  static char buff[320], *s=&buff[0]; int valid;

  inregs.h.ah=0xd8; inregs.h.al=0x1; inregs.h.cl=DiSC_Id.slot>>12;
inregs.h.ch=0;
  sregs.ds=FP_SEG(s); inregs.x.si=FP_OFF(s);
  int86x(0x15, &inregs, &outregs, &sregs);
  valid=outregs.h.ah;
  if(!valid) { DiSC_Id.it=buff[itconf]; DiSC_Id.dma=buff[dmachd]; }
  return(valid);
}

Would it help if i told you that itconf and dmachd are defined as (see
http://mc303.ulyssis.org/heim/downloads/DISCINC.H )

#define itconf                0xb2
#define dmachd                0xc0

So if my EISA board is at 0x1000, i should be able to read these
values from 0x1000+0xb2 and 0x1000+0xc0 ???  And if 'yes', any idea
about how to read them? (byte, word, long...? My guess would be as a
byte, but I'm not sure...)

> I thought EISA boards had gone away

Unfortunately... the device I am trying to write a driver for is
especially designed for our university.  Not many of those boards
exist in the world I guess :-(
(I hope that last sentence didn't take away your interest in my
project ;-)

Greetzzz,
mc303

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