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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 1995 15:22:27 -0500
From:      dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI probe problems.
Message-ID:  <199512042022.PAA05192@etinc.com>

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>On Dec 4,  3:31, Carlos Antonio Ruggiero wrote:
>} Subject: PCI probe problems.
>} Hi everybody,
>} I'm trying to install 2.1 Release in 4 Pentium based motherboards with
>} PCI buses. In two of them (a Zeus and a noname one) the PCI gets
>} probed all right. In another noname motherboard, the bus doesn't get
>} probed (though everything seems OK if I install 2.0.5). In a compaq
>} machine both 2.0.5R and 2.1 R fail to probe the bus.
>
>There are too many systems with non-compliant chipsets (Compaq being
>the worst, IMHO), and the PCI bus probe code contains many special 
>cases by now. You may want to try a kernel with the PCI probe code
>from FreeBSD-current. You'll only need "/sys/i386/isa/pcibus.c" from 
>a -current source tree, it should compile cleanly on a 2.1R system.

Remember (back-when) Compaq was the standard? (Ha-Ha).

db
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