Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:56:32 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PCI-PCI bridge troubles on NoName Message-ID: <20020410085545.P16912-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20020409232635.GA99407@cicely9.cicely.de>
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:34:28AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > > Today I plugged a Adaptec 3985 SCSI adapter into my NoName testbox > > > to connect a bunch of testdisks. > > > Whenever it initializes the PCI-PCI bridge it faults. > > > Is it a NoName specific problem or an alpha specific bridge > > > initialisation problem? > > > The bridge chip is an DEC21050 with 3 AIC7870 and 1 AIC7810 connected. > > > The card worked in a i386 FreeBSD box before and 2 identic cards are > > > still running in a current i386 system. > > > > I don't think anyone has ever put a PCI-PCI bridge into a noname before. > > It wouldn't surprise me if there were problems with the pci config-space > > i/o in lca_pci.c. > > After sensible checking there is nothing wrong here. > My problem is that the bridge got only half initialised by SRM. > Seems like I need to write code for doing that :( I can believe that! What has SRM missed initialising on the bridge? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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