Best Practices for the Design of PC Cards and Card Drivers
Vendors and developers should observe the following cautions in order to avoid problems related with interrupt sharing:
Driver developers should design drivers to support sharable PCI interrupts.
PC Card manufacturers should manufacture CardBus cards instead of 16-bit PC Cards, because they are PCI compliant.
All 16-bit PC Cards should support sharable PCI interrupts.
All 16-bit PC Cards should support the flexible allocation of I/O resources for devices that connect to them. In particular, cards should not request specific ranges of I/O space. Instead, they should request the amount of I/O space they require and allow the system to allocate the addresses flexibly.
Computer manufacturers should be aware that there are devices that require ISA IRQs, and should ensure that ISA IRQs are available to CardBus controllers in the system.
Computer manufacturers should ensure that the BIOS code sets CardBus controllers to PCIC mode.
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