Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:06:34 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Nicholas Esborn <nje@carbon.marathon.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless boot stopping at "NFS ROOT:..." Message-ID: <199903152206.OAA00926@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:07:49 %2B0100." <22920.921535669@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <199903152134.NAA02842@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:
>
> Shouldn't this be detected by PCI-id rather than by brute force probing ?
Since these are ISA chipsets, no.
They're not (all) PnP devices either, unfortunately.
>
> >:> I had a very weird problem with the new parallel port device that caused
> >
> > Try this patch. This is what I had to do to make my machines work
> > without crashing.
> >
> > If this solves your problem, I would really appreciate it if the
> > people developing the new parallel port stuff would look into it
> > further and perhaps make these probes optional rather then the
> > default. This could become a disaster if it remains a problem through
> > on the next release.
> >
> > -Matt
> > Matthew Dillon
> > <dillon@backplane.com>
> >
> >
> >Index: i386/isa/ppc.c
> >===================================================================
> >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/ppc.c,v
> >retrieving revision 1.20
> >diff -u -r1.20 ppc.c
> >--- ppc.c 1999/02/14 22:02:47 1.20
> >+++ ppc.c 1999/03/15 21:32:40
> >@@ -1066,9 +1066,11 @@
> >
> > /* list of supported chipsets */
> > int (*chipset_detect[])(struct ppc_data *, int) = {
> >+#if 0
> > ppc_pc873xx_detect,
> > ppc_smc37c66xgt_detect,
> > ppc_w83877f_detect,
> >+#endif
> > ppc_generic_detect,
> > NULL
> > };
> >
> >
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