From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 11:17:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA19209 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA19204 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA08158; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:15:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606281815.LAA08158@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PCI probing behind bridge? To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:15:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jonas@mcs.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Jun 28, 96 03:19:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > pci0:0: Intel Corporation, device=0x1250, class=bridge (host) [no driver assigned] > > > pci0:6: Digital Equipment Corporation, device=0x0021, class=bridge (pci) [no driver assigned] > > > pci0:7: Intel Corporation, device=0x7000, class=bridge (isa) [no driver assigned] > > > pci0:8: Adaptec, device=0x7078, class=storage (scsi) [no driver assigned] > > The BIOS configures the PCI at boot time. > > It is not necessary to assign a driver, it will "just work". > > Actually Terry, it won't. There is a patch to pcisupport.c that I had to > apply to get my 0new ZNYX 314s to work correctly. I'm not sure if Matt > Thomas committed the changes, but I've been running them (and the if_de > drivers) for more than a month. I meant only that the problem was not in the fact that there were bridge chips involved for which there were no drivers assigned. In a correct BIOS environment bridge chips do not need drivers. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.