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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:15:19 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with Qlogic SCSI combo card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002242113030.8714-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002241213570.52985-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Matthew Jacob writes:
> >  > > 
> >  > > Matthew Jacob writes:
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > Is there any reason why we shouldn't allow only memory mapping
> >  > >  > if I/O mapping is broken?
> >  > >  > 
> >  > > 
> >  > > That's a great idea -- how do we tell?
> >  > 
> >  > Ah! do I detect a pink of irony? :-)
> > 
> > No.. I was serious, but in a hurry.   I was wondering how one tells if 
> > a ppb doesn't deal with i/o space access behind it.  Is there a
> > standard value you get back when you read the i/o base & i/o limit
> > registers in config space, or is there some other way to tell, or do
> > we need a quirk for 21050s, etc..
> 
> Uh, I'd have to admit I would have to look at the PCI spec again to know
> this... but I can assure you that we'll need quirks no matter what.

Hmm. I remember that at one point, I had to cope with the fact that some
SRM firmware allocates port ranges outside the 0-65535 range normally used
on x86. Is it possible that such port ranges are not supported behind
bridges? Neither of my alphas does this now, I must have upgraded the
firmware once too often...

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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