From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 09:20:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C39A37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D37A43F75 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6NGK4xd061720; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:20:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6NGK4sK061719; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:20:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:20:04 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Olaf Hoyer Message-ID: <20030723162004.GA61698@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030723155351.GF513@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030723175850.B46209-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030723175850.B46209-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: ticso@cicely.de cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 62022 sf(4) on a Miata 433a X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:20:08 -0000 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 06:05:20PM +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:42:49PM +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > > > > I already had some talk with Maxime Henrion, a sf-based-card will arrive > > > shortly, so there is hope that also busdma will be supported soon. > > > Will therefor arise some potential of trouble? > > > > Yes and no. > > A non busdma driver must be aware of alpha to work. > > Otherwise a busdma driver is required only for large memory situations, > > which we curently don't support yet. > > > > > The box has currently 512MB of RAM, but will be stocked up to 1GB soon, > > > which according to docs is the limit with FreeBSD due to dma limitation. > > > > My impression was that Miatas are also limited to 1G by hardware? > > Does anyone know if Miatas can be fit with >1G? 1.5G is the limit on Miata. > In my Miata there are 6 slots for ECC SDRAM, currently two of them are > equipped with 256MB ECC registered Sticks from HP. Registered? No, ECC yes, but otherwise plain 83MHz unbuffered SDRAM. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte