SMP support and Tyan S288X boards

[James R. Van Artsalen]

Ketrien I. Saihr-Kenchedra wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Chris Dillon wrote:
>
>> The only thing I did to the custom kernel was add SMP and remove all 
>> of the drivers for unused stuff, including lots of ISA drivers (but 
>> not the ISA bus driver, we still need that).  Are there really AMD64 
>> boards out there with ISA slots?
>
>
> I expect them at some point. But I'm an old hand with IPCs. ;)
>
> As far as boards that you put in a regular ATX case, no. However, they 
> still
> have an ISA bus wedged in there for attaching SMBus, I2C, and hardware
> watchdogs.


The industrial control crowd still uses ISA cards.  You can look for 
companies that serve that market, and expect to pay a premium.

The system chipset will need some support for ISA to work well due to 
differences in interrupt behavior.  There is other hair too I can't 
remember offhand.  I don't know if the designers of any of the amd64 
chipsets built in considerations for ISA.