amd64 motherboards w/ ISA slots ?

[Peter Wemm]

On Sunday 15 August 2004 09:33 am, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does amd64 support ISA cards ?
> are there amd64 motherboards with ISA slots ?

I remember reading somewhere that AMD insisted in the board guidelines 
that all boards that I know of are PC2001 (or so) compliant.  PC2001 
compliance means:
1) MUST have acpi 2.0,
2) MUST have local apic/io apic
3) MUST NOT have isa slots,
etc.

The 'isa' devices that we support are not actually isa electrically.  
There are various low-pin-count busses on board that things like the 
super-io chips, flash etc are connected to.  They're flat address space 
just like isa - no enumeration.  In software they behave like their isa 
counterparts, but elecrically and physically, there is no 'isa' 
hardware on any of these boards.

And, good riddance in general.
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