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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 2000 00:32:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current not bootable on Rawhide (as4100) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012120032130.1656-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012120826.eBC8Q1302477@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mike Smith wrote:

> > > Does the kernel config have EISA in it?  It just occurs to me that if you 
> > > don't, you won't get the ISA bus (because the bridge is PCI:EISA).
> > 
> > D'oh!
> > 
> > This is what I get for just doing this stuff with half a brain, which, as you
> > know, makes things pretty small for now. I just porked my system, so I can't
> > fix this until I get in tomorrow.
> 
> You mean this is what I get. 8)  At any rate, there are a couple of 
> solutions.  One is to say "if you have a PCI:EISA bridge, you must have 
> EISA support to get ISA".  I don't really like that.

That's the NetBSD solution.


> Another is to match an EISA bridge as an ISA bridge, but that's also bad.

True.

> 
> A third, and I kinda like this one, is to build the EISA bridge support 
> anytime you build PCI.  The EISA bridge code will hang out a hook for an 
> EISA bus (which doesn't have to be there), but it will also hang out a 
> hook for an ISA bus, which might be.  This is the way it used to "work" 
> as well...

If this was the change to conf/files, I'll try it in the morning.




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