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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:49:13 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCI-PCI bridge troubles on NoName
Message-ID:  <20020318154913.A29673@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020318132201.GE8348@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:22:02PM %2B0100
References:  <20020318132201.GE8348@cicely8.cicely.de>

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:22:02PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:

Bridge chips can be troublesome on Alpha (only on Alpha?? I doubt it)
E.g. a DEC Tulip 21040 did not work behind a bridge chip on an AS2100 Sable
Alpha. Not in SRM, not in Tru64 either. 

YMMV

W/

> Today I plugged a Adaptec 3985 SCSI adapter into my NoName testbox
> to connect a bunch of testdisks.
> Whenever it initializes the PCI-PCI bridge it faults.
> Is it a NoName specific problem or an alpha specific bridge
> initialisation problem?
> The bridge chip is an DEC21050 with 3 AIC7870 and 1 AIC7810 connected.
> The card worked in a i386 FreeBSD box before and 2 identic cards are
> still running in a current i386 system.
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Mar 13 13:03:35 GMT 2002
>     root@cicely10.cicely.de:/usr/FreeBSD-2002-03-13/src/sys/alpha/compile/CICELY10
> Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xfffffc000061a000.
> DEC AXPpci
> Alpha PC AXPpci33, 167MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> CPU: LCA Family major=4 minor=2
> OSF PAL rev: 0x100090002012d
> real memory  = 65036288 (63512K bytes)
> avail memory = 57368576 (56024K bytes)
> lca0: <21066 Core Logic chipset>
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> sym0: <810> port 0x10000-0x100ff mem 0x81040000-0x810400ff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0
> sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
> sym0: interrupting at ISA irq 11
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 8.0 on pci0
> 
> unexpected machine check:
> 
>     mces    = 0x1
>     vector  = 0x670
>     param   = 0xfffffc0000006048
>     pc      = 0xfffffc00004f9ab0
>     ra      = 0xfffffc00004f997c
>     curproc = 0xfffffc000054ec88
>         pid = 0, comm = swapper
> 
> Stopped at      badaddr_read+0x110:     mb
> 
> This is reproduceable with stable.
> 
> -- 
> B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
> ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de
> 
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