From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 25 06:19:28 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA02625 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:19:28 -0700 Received: from amcell2.accumed.com (ljo.pr.mcs.net [204.95.62.86]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA02608 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:19:22 -0700 Received: (from ljo@localhost) by amcell2.accumed.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA00831; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:43:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:43:25 -0500 From: L Jonas Olsson Message-Id: <199504201743.MAA00831@amcell2.accumed.com> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com CC: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, ljo@po.CWRU.Edu In-reply-to: <199504191823.LAA02984@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> (rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com) Subject: Re: PCI plug-n-play on Intel Premiere Baby II? Reply-to: ljo@po.CWRU.Edu Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Intel Premiere II (aka Plato) uses shared ISA interrupts if you don't mark enough ISA interrupts as available (vs "used by ISA card") in the plug and play subportion of the BIOS setup. I've used three PCI cards all at different IRQs on this board. (video, frame grabber, and NCR810). I'm more worried about the things Rod have said about multiple bus masters. I plan to use this board with NCR810 and an Imaging Technology bus-mastering PCI frame grabber. Jonas PS I've succesfully used the BitFlow Raptor PCI frame grabber under FreeBSD. This was all in user mode using /dev/io to read some PCI BIOS variables (memory address and IRQ line) and /dev/mem to mmap the registers and memory (8MB region). This is shared memory access and the read speed is ~15.5MB/s on 90MHz Plato. From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 25 06:34:56 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA04268 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:34:56 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA04260 ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:34:54 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: ljo@po.CWRU.Edu cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PCI plug-n-play on Intel Premiere Baby II? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 95 12:43:25 CDT." <199504201743.MAA00831@amcell2.accumed.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 06:34:44 -0700 Message-ID: <4254.798816884@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > PS I've succesfully used the BitFlow Raptor PCI frame grabber under > FreeBSD. This was all in user mode using /dev/io to read some PCI > BIOS variables (memory address and IRQ line) and /dev/mem to mmap > the registers and memory (8MB region). This is shared memory access > and the read speed is ~15.5MB/s on 90MHz Plato. I don't suppose you'd be interested in writing up some words to this effect? :-) Send 'em to Rod and doc@freebsd.org? We could sure use more interesting factoids like this for a "bragging page" on our WEB server.. :-) Jordan From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 25 09:57:25 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA00671 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:57:25 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA00660 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:57:22 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA10132; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:54:24 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504251654.JAA10132@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: PCI plug-n-play on Intel Premiere Baby II? To: ljo@po.CWRU.Edu Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504201743.MAA00831@amcell2.accumed.com> from "L Jonas Olsson" at Apr 20, 95 12:43:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1568 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The Intel Premiere II (aka Plato) uses shared ISA interrupts if you > don't mark enough ISA interrupts as available (vs "used by ISA card") > in the plug and play subportion of the BIOS setup. > > I've used three PCI cards all at different IRQs on this board. > (video, frame grabber, and NCR810). Since these all 3 have different ``classes'' in the PCI config space, the Plato BIOS will infact assign them to 3 seperate interrupts if they are available as you stated above. The real nasties come in when you try to get 2 disk class controllers to be on seperate interrupts, then the nightmare begins. Some one is sending me a FAX on what one vendor came up with for fixing this. I will try to create a FAQ entry using that info. > > I'm more worried about the things Rod have said about multiple bus > masters. I plan to use this board with NCR810 and an Imaging > Technology bus-mastering PCI frame grabber. 2 masters, you should be okay. Don't try to add a bus mastered Ethernet card or another disk controller though, you will have problems. > Jonas > > PS I've succesfully used the BitFlow Raptor PCI frame grabber under > FreeBSD. This was all in user mode using /dev/io to read some PCI > BIOS variables (memory address and IRQ line) and /dev/mem to mmap > the registers and memory (8MB region). This is shared memory access > and the read speed is ~15.5MB/s on 90MHz Plato. Cool...!! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 26 08:54:35 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA14892 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 08:54:35 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA14884 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 08:54:30 -0700 Received: from chsun.eunet.ch (chsun.eunet.ch [146.228.10.15]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id IAA01681 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 08:51:43 -0700 Received: from salt.UUCP by chsun.eunet.ch (8.6.10/1.34) id RAA05713; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:50:07 +0200 Received: from mango.atb.ch by atb.ch (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA18707; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:32:44 +0200 Received: by mango.atb.ch (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03363; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:32:43 --100 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:32:43 --100 From: sf@salt.atb.CH (Steve Flasby) Message-Id: <9504261532.AA03363@mango.atb.ch> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Running FreeBSD on a Compaq Contura Aero 4/33C X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1155 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone have experience of starting up FreeBDS on this hardware. Currently I can't get it to boot from floppy. When I boot with this same floppy on another PC then it comes up OK but when it tries to change the partition size it changes it to a different (smaller) value. Maybe this is the problem. I know its a bit underpowered but I need a portable and its the only one I have... parts of startup transcript... From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 26 09:12:38 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA15511 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 09:12:38 -0700 Received: from chsun.eunet.ch (chsun.eunet.ch [146.228.10.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA15505 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 09:12:32 -0700 Received: from salt.UUCP by chsun.eunet.ch (8.6.10/1.34) id RAA05154; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:45:35 +0200 Received: from mango.atb.ch by atb.ch (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA18707; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:32:44 +0200 Received: by mango.atb.ch (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03363; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:32:43 --100 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:32:43 --100 From: sf@salt.atb.CH (Steve Flasby) Message-Id: <9504261532.AA03363@mango.atb.ch> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Running FreeBSD on a Compaq Contura Aero 4/33C X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1155 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone have experience of starting up FreeBDS on this hardware. Currently I can't get it to boot from floppy. When I boot with this same floppy on another PC then it comes up OK but when it tries to change the partition size it changes it to a different (smaller) value. Maybe this is the problem. I know its a bit underpowered but I need a portable and its the only one I have... parts of startup transcript...