Every time a legacy ISA device appears as a fully functional node in the /sys filesystem of a modern Linux kernel, or receives a DMA channel allocated by Windows 10, the NSC6001 has done its job. It is a quiet, uncelebrated mediator that asks for no fanfare, only a correct entry in the DSDT. In an industry obsessed with obsolescence, the NSC6001 stands as a defiant monument to backwards compatibility—proof that the ghost of the IBM PC/AT still haunts the silicon of today, and that sometimes, the most interesting hardware is the hardware you are not supposed to know exists.
(safe, but watchdog/GPIO unavailable):
Every time a legacy ISA device appears as a fully functional node in the /sys filesystem of a modern Linux kernel, or receives a DMA channel allocated by Windows 10, the NSC6001 has done its job. It is a quiet, uncelebrated mediator that asks for no fanfare, only a correct entry in the DSDT. In an industry obsessed with obsolescence, the NSC6001 stands as a defiant monument to backwards compatibility—proof that the ghost of the IBM PC/AT still haunts the silicon of today, and that sometimes, the most interesting hardware is the hardware you are not supposed to know exists.
(safe, but watchdog/GPIO unavailable):