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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:09:38 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Daniel Nilsson <daniel.n.nilsson@home.se>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mikasa boot problems
Message-ID:  <20001206200938.E497@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <14893.37128.710735.340327@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:10:16PM -0500
References:  <976022855.158daniel.n.nilsson@home.se> <14893.194.420965.77884@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20001205204431.C346@freebie.demon.nl> <14893.37128.710735.340327@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:10:16PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Wilko Bulte writes:
>  > > I ported the AS1000/AS1000A support from NetBSD.  I don't think the
>  > > 1000A support has been tested yet.
>  > 
>  > Go and washed thou mouth with soap..!
>  > 
>  > I have 4.2-something running on a AS1000A at work. Actually I use it as my
>  > FreeBSD-builder. Mine is a EV5/400 BTW.
>  > 
>  > So, I don't understand why mine has worked for a long time now..
> 
> Actually, the problem is worse than I thought. I think your machine
> works only because we've been lucky.
> 
> As things stand now, I think only ev4 1000's and ev5 1000a's will
> work, because I misread the NetBSD source code.  It turns out the
> chipset is dependant on the CPU and the interrupt hardware is
> dependant on the systype.

Mikasa aka AS1000 -> EV4 or EV45

There was a CPU board with a 300Mc EV5, for used in both Mikasa and Noritake

EV56 is only in AS1000A, aka Noritake. But some AS1000A had EV4 CPUs.

EV56 CPUs were called Primo(?).

Just to confuse things further there are mainboards that can do EV4 and EV5
(easy check: has onboard VGA and SIMMs sockets for ECC SIMMs) and mainboard
models that can only do EV5/56 (which lack the VGA and ECC simm sockets).

Right... I hope I have now sufficiently confused everybody.

%-)
W/
-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 					Arnhem, the Netherlands
wilko@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org 		http://www.nlfug.nl



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