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Date:      Fri, 1 Sep 2000 02:25:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha busspace.c busdma_machdep.c     clock.c dec_1000a.c dec_2100_a50.c dec_2100_a500.c dec_axppc
Message-ID:  <200009010925.CAA24053@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008282148.OAA24980@freefall.freebsd.org> from Doug Rabson at "Aug 28, 2000 02:48:17 pm"

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Doug Rabson wrote:
> dfr         2000/08/28 14:48:13 PDT
> 
>   Log:
>   * Completely rewrite the alpha busspace to hide the implementation from
>     the drivers.
>   * Remove legacy inx/outx support from chipset and replace with macros
>     which call busspace.
>   * Rework pci config accesses to route through the pcib device instead of
>     calling a MD function directly.
>   
>   With these changes it is possible to cleanly support machines which have
>   more than one independantly numbered PCI busses. As a bonus, the new
>   busspace implementation should be measurably faster than the old one.

Ugh.  This breaks the device probe on my PWS 500au.  IIRC, it is dying
with a machine check exception after probing fd0.  I'll try to hook this
up to a serial console at my workstation tomorrow to study it some more.

-- 

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