Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:00:32 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 164SX Hardware notes Message-ID: <20020522120032.GH87326@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <acftdn$122t$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44-Blink.0205220101400.13076-100000@deepthought.blinkenlights.nl> <acftdn$122t$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl> wrote: > > > Nics : > > Beware of dual port nic's with pci bridge chips. > > I got one that really kills my alpha ( openboot errors and > > fbsd kernel crashes during boot ). > > I have a DEC card that has 1*de+2*isp (!) behind a PCI bridge. SRM > happily recognizes all of these devices. I think a generic warning > about cards using PCI-PCI bridges is inappropriate. Some SRM versions only seem to intialize known chips behind bridges. > (For those who notice that I've never mentioned a PC164SX before: > It's running OpenBSD.) And NetBSD has PCI initialisation code - possibly OpenBSD too. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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