From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 22 12:47:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B90637BB8A for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 12:47:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12tyAp-000FLg-0A; Mon, 22 May 2000 19:47:35 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29117; Mon, 22 May 2000 20:53:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:53:15 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Alexander Langer Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device ed (PCI) on alphas In-Reply-To: <20000522120120.C809@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Doug Rabson (dfr@nlsystems.com): > > > Just after sending the last reply I realised that this is a PCI ed device > > which changes things. Often alphas have two different interrupt numbering > > systems, one for PCI and one for ISA so if a PCI device appears to have > > the same irq as an ISA device, there probably is no conflict. > > I don't know what is the real problem with your NIC though, sorry. > > Hmm. I changed the hardware-slots and then the NIC hat IRQ 0 and IRQ > 1. Its actually quite reasonable to have IRQ 0 or IRQ 1 for PCI devices on an alpha. As I tried to explain, they are allocated completely differently from typical x86 machines. > > That definitely seems not good, so I replaced the PCI NICH with an old > ISA ed-board, and will port the driver today. Cool. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message