Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:32:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: EISA support for AS2100 ("Sable")
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103150030130.54019-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <15024.16652.75941.750262@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> I'll be happy to make you an account on the 2100 at BSDI; just say the
> word.  

Have you got it hooked up to a serial console?

> I seem to remember that when we last talked about this, enabling the
> EISA code on that 2100 led to the fddi adapter being probed properly,
> but the EISA fddi driver was failing to attach the device.  Nobody on
> the west coast could come up with another EISA board that they could
> eisacfg into the system & we didn't know if it was a fundamental EISA
> problem on alpha, or just a problem with the fddi driver..

Since I (re)wrote the EISA 'fea' front end I wouldn't be surprised if it
was a problem with the driver.

I'll put together an assortment of EISA cards and ship them to you at some
point so we can have a few more test subjects available.

-- 
| Matthew N. Dodd  | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD  |
| winter@jurai.net |       2 x '84 Volvo 245DL        | ix86,sparc,pmax |
| http://www.jurai.net/~winter |  For Great Justice!  | ISO8802.5 4ever |


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0103150030130.54019-100000>