From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 14 21:32:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A1637B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:32:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA94835; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:32:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:32:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EISA support for AS2100 ("Sable") In-Reply-To: <15024.16652.75941.750262@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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