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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Diskless boot stopping at "NFS ROOT:..." 
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:06:34 -0800
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> In message <199903152134.NAA02842@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:
> 
> Shouldn't this be detected by PCI-id rather than by brute force probing ?

Since these are ISA chipsets, no.

They're not (all) PnP devices either, unfortunately.

> 
> >:>     I had a very weird problem with the new parallel port device that caused
> >
> >    Try this patch.  This is what I had to do to make my machines work 
> >    without crashing.
> >
> >    If this solves your problem, I would really appreciate it if the
> >    people developing the new parallel port stuff would look into it
> >    further and perhaps make these probes optional rather then the
> >    default.  This could become a disaster if it remains a problem through
> >    on the next release.
> >
> >					-Matt
> >					Matthew Dillon 
> >					<dillon@backplane.com>
> >
> >
> >Index: i386/isa/ppc.c
> >===================================================================
> >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/ppc.c,v
> >retrieving revision 1.20
> >diff -u -r1.20 ppc.c
> >--- ppc.c	1999/02/14 22:02:47	1.20
> >+++ ppc.c	1999/03/15 21:32:40
> >@@ -1066,9 +1066,11 @@
> > 
> > 	/* list of supported chipsets */
> > 	int (*chipset_detect[])(struct ppc_data *, int) = {
> >+#if 0
> > 		ppc_pc873xx_detect,
> > 		ppc_smc37c66xgt_detect,
> > 		ppc_w83877f_detect,
> >+#endif
> > 		ppc_generic_detect,
> > 		NULL
> > 	};
> >
> >
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> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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