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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:42:36 -0600
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple PCI controllers
Message-ID:  <4BC7C08C.2050002@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201004151311.18487.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <p2t292693081004150738je2d9de95ya52cbc5ad9ce82b3@mail.gmail.com> <201004151311.18487.jhb@freebsd.org>

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> I think there were not multiple-domain machines that FreeBSD ran on in 
> previous releases in general.

  Power Macs have up to 3 PCI buses, with each one having bus number 0 
at the host bridge. FreeBSD 6.* was fine with that, except if there was 
a conflict in bus/slot/function. Fortunately it looked like OpenFirmware 
was careful to avoid creating these conflicts when doing bus assignment.

later,

Peter.



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