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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:31:51 +0900
From:      Hisashi Hiramoto <hiramoto@phys.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>
Cc:        FreeBSD-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/20895: sym driver doesn't work for SYM53C895A
Message-ID:  <200008290332.e7T3WSm02626@march.phys.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:51:01 %2B0200"
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008282234100.431-100000@linux.local>

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Thanks for your quick response.

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:51:01 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= wrote in
message-id <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008282234100.431-100000@linux.local>:
> 
> I just checked the docs and, indeed, the SYM53C895A is described as having
> a PCI 32 bit interface, but supporting DAC access cycles. The patch above

I should have mentioned in the first bug report that 53c895a supports
32-bit PCI interface with 64-bit addressing.  Sorry to have forgotten
to mention that.

# sym53c895a vs sym53c896 = i8088 vs i8086 ?

>   
> PS: Under Linux, the chip description is also wrong, but the BAR decoding
>     is performed by the driver itself that detects generically 64 bit
>     BARs as allows PCI specifications. The FreeBSD resource interface

Yes, I first saw the linux driver and avoided to remove FE_64BIT.

>     requires drivers to know `a priori' the width of each BARs, which
>     could have been avoided, in my not humble opinion on that point. ;-)  

Regards,

Hisashi Hiramoto


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