Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:11:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ALpha 4100 boot issues Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104161107320.50731-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104160856120.5235-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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Achhh.... Never send mail before first coffee.... Let's try this again: 1. For -stable, it's an open guess as to whether bridged cards will work at all on Alpha 4100 (we need the rewrite of Alpha BusSpace stuff that then allowed hose stuff to not have to be encapsulated inside a 32 bit PCI address). This should, however, work in -current, but has not been fully tested yet. 2. It's as yet unclear what the relationship between card placement in any one hose and bootability. This still needs to be proven one way or the other. These might go into RELNOTES. -matt On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I don't know. Now that there's a new boot block and if I can get a free hour > or two, I'll try again. > > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:05:26PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Matt, do you think I should put this in the RELNOTES for 4.3R ? > > I think I should. > > > > Wilko > > > > > [ cc'd to -alpha for broadcast ] > > > > > > The problem was one of the following two problems: > > > > > > 1. The Qlogic SCSI controller being booted from does not work if it is not in > > > hose 0 (upper left, looking from rear). > > > > > > 2. If the QLogic SCSI controller is the 'bridged' DEC part (i.e., the part > > > that has a 21150 bridge and the QLogic behind that), booting doesn't work. > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure which, if any, it really is. I'm inclined to think that #1 may be > > > broken for -current because hose 1 has the EISA console, and that there might > > > be some funny interaction ther. > > > > > > I'm inclined to think that #2 might be broken period for -stable because we > > > don't have clean hose management in -stable, IIRC. > > > > > > -matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:18:01AM +0000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > As for testing: has AS4[01]00 been tested succesfully? I'm using > > > > > > > > Speaking of AS4100 testing... Matt could you write a sentence or two > > > > speaking of the problem the BSDi 4100 had and the limitations 4100 users > > > > have to be aware of? It would be good to get it documented. > > > > > > ---end of quoted text--- > > > > -- > > | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org > > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte FreeBSD/alpha Powered http://www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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