Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:51:28 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lynx test / 2nd attempt Message-ID: <20001206235128.C3309@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20001206234557.A3309@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:45:57PM %2B0100 References: <200012062053.eB6KrNF52293@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200012062235.PAA25544@usr08.primenet.com> <20001206234557.A3309@freebie.demon.nl>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:45:57PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:35:45PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Is FreeBSD being "a PnP OS" an alpha need? > > > > > > I don't think I understand this question. > ... > > > > > If the card's default POST state didn't require the CPU to do > > > > processing when the card was installed with PnP mode enable, > > > > then doing the "PnP OS" thing would work; otherwise, it probably > > > > won't. This means that ISA PnP will probably be broken on these > > > > boxes as well. > > > > > > This is also bunk. > > > > PnP cards come up disabled by default, unless they are enabled; > > what you're saying here (when you say it's "bunk") translates to > > me to mean that that the cards aren't disabled by default, or > > that all Apha machines with ISA slots have PnP support in their > > firmware/BIOS? > > The NoName (AXPpci33) I had my hands on at a time > had a 'isacfg' command in the SRM code so that you could setup an > SRM table with irqs, ioports etc for your ISA cards. IIRC Tru64 goes > out and pulls info from that table by using a handle/string one supplies > to the isacfg command. At least that is what I remember having seen > in the Tru64 device drivers manual. To followup on my own mail: Miata has this 'isacfg' cmd as well in the SRM. So Miata owners can run their own experiment. The NoName OEM manual explains (not well, but somewhat) how to use isacfg. (See ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/wilko for that manual) hth, Wilko -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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