Subject: Re: duos (again)
To: None <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Michael R. Zucca <mrz5149@acm.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/24/1999 23:31:06
At 8:49 PM -0500 3/24/99, Paul Goyette wrote:
>The slot_noint() message means that there's something in NuBus slot 0xe
>which is generating interrupts, but we a) don't know what it is and/or
>b) don't know how to turn the interrupts off. Most likely, slot 0xe in
>the Duo230 is another instance of Apple inventing a pseudo-slot device.
>They've done this on several models, and basically it means that some
>other device (like, maybe, on-board video) pretends to look like a NuBus
>device. Unfortunately, since we don't know how to handle many of the
>video devices, we lose.
The Slot E interrupts are from all of the devices on the Dock. The specs for
the Duo basically place all Dock devices in Slot $E. It's cool that things
like the ethernet are actually recognized.
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