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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc: Nicholas Esborn <nje@carbon.marathon.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: Diskless boot stopping at "NFS ROOT:..." 
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:07:49 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@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 ?


>:>     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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