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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2000 21:39:03 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: USB support for some Alphas
Message-ID:  <20000511213903.A1935@jedi.wbnet>
In-Reply-To: <200005092256.SAA05444@server.baldwin.cx>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 06:56:35PM -0400
References:  <200005092256.SAA05444@server.baldwin.cx>

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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 06:56:35PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Well, I've managed to get an XP900 to play with this week, and
> have added in support to the resource manager to handle the USB
> controller on Alphas with the cia and tsunami chipsets.  According
> to Doug Rabson:
> 
>   The USB hardware on this platform interrupts via the ISA pic. SRM
>   represents this as an interrupt pin of 0xe0 + isa irq no. Unfortunately I
>   have not put in support in the alpha pci code to recognise this so the
>   interrupt allocation fails. The place to add this support is probably
>   pci_alloc_resource() in sys/alpha/pci/pcibus.c.
> 
> Not having much to do between finals this week, I've managed to get
> this working in the patchset at
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.usb.patch.  I'd like to
> commit this relatively soon (day or two) to -current, so please test
> this out.  Thanks.

<deafening silence>.. I'd like to keep alpha/HARDWARE.TXT in line with
reality so please check if the USB support that John has created works
for you?

[I don't have this hardware available :-( ]

-- 
Wilko Bulte 	FreeBSD, the power to serve  	http://www.freebsd.org
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