From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 15:22:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA03651 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03643 Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by Sisyphos id AA05130 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:21:34 +0200 Message-Id: <199604242221.AA05130@Sisyphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:21:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: Ollivier Robert "Re: 82378ZB PCI ISA Bridge" (Apr 17, 23:34) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Ollivier Robert Subject: Re: 82378ZB PCI ISA Bridge Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, se@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry for the long delay, but I don't have easy access to mail, currently ... On Apr 17, 23:34, Ollivier Robert wrote: } Subject: Re: 82378ZB PCI ISA Bridge } It seems that Terry Lambert said: } > I believe the system should "run fine" without recognizing the bridge } > chips. } } Except it is hard to install an OS where the SVSI controller (NCR-based) is } not recognized at all by the system :-) The BIOS is responsible for initialization of all PCI bridge chips. If some PCI card is not detected by FreeBSD, there must be some other problem. It is NOT a problem in "pcisupport.c", which only prints some register dumps for debugging, but does not change the configuration of any bridge chip. } I've tried generating a floppy with the pcisupport.c file patched with the } 1.15->1.16 diff (which added the 82378ZB support in STABLE) but still no } luck. Many people completed an installation on a system with that chip. Please give detailed information, if the problem still exists. - is any PCI chip identified ? - where are those PCI chips mapped ? - is there any warning printed by the PCI probe ? Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se