Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:29:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, jonas@mcs.net Subject: Re: PCI probing behind bridge? Message-ID: <199606272029.NAA05768@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <m0uZMcq-0003ktC@mercury.mcs.com> from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at Jun 27, 96 02:21:11 pm
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> I'm testing a Pro-Log PIP10 computer with FreeBSD 2.1R. This is a > PICMG passive backplane computer with Triton II chipset, onboard SCSI, > and onboard DEC bridge. The passive backplane PCI bus is on the other > side of the DEC chip and contains VGA and Matrox Meteor. The probe > does not find the VGA and Meteor cards, only: > > pci0:0: Intel Corporation, device=0x1250, class=bridge (host) [no driver assigned] > pci0:6: Digital Equipment Corporation, device=0x0021, class=bridge (pci) [no driver assigned] > pci0:7: Intel Corporation, device=0x7000, class=bridge (isa) [no driver assigned] > pci0:8: Adaptec, device=0x7078, class=storage (scsi) [no driver assigned] > > Is this a BIOS or FreeBSD problem? Am I likely to have better sucess > with other FreeBSD version? The BIOS configures the PCI at boot time. It is not necessary to assign a driver, it will "just work". But enough about you... tell us about this passive backplane system; we were just discussing this as an "ideal design" on the SMP list. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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