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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Prelimiary interrupt thread patches for alpha
Message-ID:  <200009151803.LAA24561@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000915193236.B61065@cicely5.cicely.de> from Bernd Walter at "Sep 15, 2000 07:32:36 pm"

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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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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