RE: Two devices on one card RE: Motherboard questions

[Lame Brooks-G14738 <brooks.lame@motorola.com>]

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> is it technically possible to put two PCI 
> devices on a PCI 
> card w/o a bridge?  I heard somewhere that was possible, but 
> don't see 
> how...  (I guess some kind of simple arbiter?)

Just about anything is possible.  However, it is an explicit violation of
the PCI spec to place more than one PCI load per pin on a card.  You can do
it in an embedded system though.  One, maybe two problems to solve: 1) the
devices must have independent IDSEL# connections (multiple ways to solve
this) and 2) need some kind of arbiter if more than one of the devices will
be a bus master.
-- BrooksL