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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:39:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI devices settling and illegal request
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106042139250.98616-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <15132.12522.204808.968943@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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and tlsb/....


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> 
> John Polstra writes:
>  > In article <15132.9197.86824.642979@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>,
>  > Andrew Gallatin  <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > The only cards I've seen that give a hoot what hose they're on are
>  > > NCR/Sym cards.  I suppose video cards would need to be on the zeroth
>  > > hose too..
>  > 
>  > OK, I give up.  What's a "hose"?
>  > 
>  > John
> 
> Modern server-class alphas (such as DS20, xp1000, AS4100, AS4000,
> AS1200, etc) may have totally separate PCI buses, with separate IO and
> memory spaces.  Like a normal bus, each of these can have ppbs to
> child busses, etc.  We call each collection of buses a hose.  This
> terminology comes from the SRM console.
> 
> See sys/alpha/pci/tsunami_pci.c and sys/alpha/mcbus/mcpcia.c for two
> examples.
> 
> Drew
> 
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