Re: Hang starting X, probe hits serial device

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:28:08 +0000


>Is it normal that an outl(0x42ec,...) should land on 0x02ec? Even
>possible? (I could be deluded here.)

Yes, this is pretty much normal. Not all ISA peripherals decode all the
address lines, and it's fairly common for 0x0123, 0x4123, 0x8123, ... to all
select the same hardware. Some cards make deliberate use of this fact
to expand their address range.

p.

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