From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 15 11: 3:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73DE37B424; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA24561; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009151803.LAA24561@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Prelimiary interrupt thread patches for alpha In-Reply-To: <20000915193236.B61065@cicely5.cicely.de> from Bernd Walter at "Sep 15, 2000 07:32:36 pm" To: Bernd Walter Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:03:31 -0700 (PDT) Cc: "David O'Brien" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:26:09AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:18:26AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:58:12AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > > > > > miata means that it should be testable on a PC164 - right? > > > > > > No. There are some differences in the chipsets used. > > > > Let me expand on this answer -- just because something worked on a Miata > > does not mean it will work on a PC164. Of course something working (or > > not working) does mean it is worth testing to see if it works on a PC164. > > I wanted to know if there are known show stoppers. > "worth testing" is exactly what I tried to say with testable. I believe it should be worth testing as I know that the cia PCI bus driver is ok. In fact, most of the PCI bus drivers are fixed, so it should work on most alphas, AFAIK. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message