Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 00:48:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current not bootable on Rawhide (as4100) Message-ID: <200012120848.eBC8mI302562@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2000 00:32:49 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012120032130.1656-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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> > 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.
Well, it'd work better if we had EISA code for the Alpha. 8)
> > 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.
It was, please let me know if it unbreaks things for you.
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