From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 13 10:27:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02073 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [209.47.148.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02056 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id NAA12504; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:26:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:26:34 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Tom cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More PCI Slots... (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Tom wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > Sorry, I couldn't think of anywhere else more appropriate...but, is this > > restricted to only Sun's, or has anyone looked at similar under an > > Intel/PCI environment? > > PCI extender boxes have been available for a long time. Not long ago > there was a mention of someone who hooked several of these up to a FreeBSD > system. The OS doesn't need to do anything special to recognize them? Are there any limitations? At work, we are looking at a Sparc Enterprise 450, which has 10PCI slots spread over something like 3-4 PCI busses...do the extende do something like that, or is it all one big bus? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message