Hi, list I know this might be a very basic question. But I really don't clear at it. Can a peripheral chip that claims to be ISA or PCI device be used in a ARM based embedded system? For these kind of chips, I only concern about the planar kind of devices, means they are not on a dedicated expansion card.

From hardware point of view, to attach a ISA or PCI planar chip, is there any requirement need to fulfill on a ARM bard?

From Linux driver point of view, what are needed to support an ISA or PCI driver in ARM architecture? More important, is ISA or PCI device a platform device? If not, how to add these kind of devices in my board definition?

I know my question might not be reasonable enough, if I messed concepts, please sort me out. Thanks in advance. -- woody I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.