Re: RFC: Devices, buses and hotplug

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:37:22 +0200


Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> There are: some Amiga video boards use little endian PCI video chips connected
> through a hardware byteswapping Zorro<->PCI FPGA.

Another fun device is the Efficient Networks ENI155 ATM NIC series: they
have an SBus chip behind a PCI-SBus bridge. Of course, probably 99% of
the NICs they've produced are PCI ... (which, fortunately, makes it
quite unlikely that we'll ever need to support the SBus original)

- Werner

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