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In article <m2ln1tbfnx.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk> Graham Murray
<newspost@gmurray.org.uk> shared the following with us in demon.tech.pc:
>Marcus Durham <Marcus@zenn.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> It's not Creatives fault, it's the fact that PCI soundcards have to talk
>> to the system differently to the old ISA cards. It's a fact of life.
>
>Why? Once the PCI bus and the devices have been initialised (which
>should be a one-off process at boot time), in what way do applications
>have to communicate differently? 

Well the fact that Windows loads a second driver usually called "legacy"
should provide a clue.

>Surely in both cases, internal
>registers in the card are mapped to I/O address space, an interrupt
>handler is required, and DMA (when used) is just a combination of I/O
>register access and interrupt handling. In both cases the application
>just needs to know the base I/O address and IRQ used by the card.

For some reason, with the SB live and the PCI 128, the PCI nature of the
card seems to be an issue.

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Marcus Durham
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