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Date:      Sun, 7 May 2000 11:10:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AlphaServer 4100 Support being integrated
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005071109370.7876-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005071019200.709-100000@linux.local>

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Hmm. It's a normal PCI bus. If DELAY is wrong on alpha's, this may explain
some of the funnies I've seen elsewhere. Thanks for spotting this.

On Sun, 7 May 2000, [ISO-8859-1] G=E9rard Roudier wrote:

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> On Sat, 6 May 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> [...]
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> > sym0: <810> port 0x1fffc00-0x1fffcff mem 0x7fdde00-0x7fddeff irq 4 at d=
evice 1.0 on pci0
> > sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
> > sym0: open drain IRQ line driver
> > sym0: using NCR-generic firmware.
> > sym0: initial SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 =3D (hex) 00/00/00/00/00/00
> > sym0: final   SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 =3D (hex) 03/c8/00/00/08/00
> > sym0: Delay (GEN=3D11): 403 msec, 22055 KHz
> > sym0: Delay (GEN=3D11): 426 msec, 20864 KHz
> > sym0: Delay (GEN=3D11): 426 msec, 20864 KHz
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> [...]
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> Based on the boot messages, estimation of PCI clock frequency by the
> driver is about 20 MHz. Is it correct ?
> If it is not, then DELAY() may well be very inaccurate on this Alpha
> machine.
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> (The code used to measure the PCI clock frequency had been written by
> Stefan Esser for both Linux and FreeBSD ncr drivers. This code was
> initially only used to measure the SCSI clock frequency of 875 chips
> (given the SCSI clock frequency value, presence of clock doubler can be
> guessed). Btw, this code has proven to be as accurate as DELAY() allows).
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> G=E9rard.
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