LinuxBIOS and ISA slot on PCChips M787CL M/B

[ron minnich]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 riskin at esinosoft.com wrote:

> I am migrating LinuxBIOS from vt5426 to PCChips M787CL( NB: VT8601 ,SB:
> VT82C686B),and I want to use ISA slot.I think that LinuxBIOS doesn't
> need to initialize ISA slot, the devices on ISA bus should work,but I am
> wrong.So does LinuxBIOS need to initialize the ISA slot?

You actually can't do much with that slot. ISA is a mess. There is no way 
for linuxbios to do anything because there are no configuration registers 
to read in ISA to help configure. So I am not sure what you should do.

ron