From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 13:30:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA22456 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22442 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA05768; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:29:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606272029.NAA05768@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PCI probing behind bridge? To: jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:29:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, jonas@mcs.net In-Reply-To: from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at Jun 27, 96 02:21:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm testing a Pro-Log PIP10 computer with FreeBSD 2.1R. This is a > PICMG passive backplane computer with Triton II chipset, onboard SCSI, > and onboard DEC bridge. The passive backplane PCI bus is on the other > side of the DEC chip and contains VGA and Matrox Meteor. The probe > does not find the VGA and Meteor cards, only: > > pci0:0: Intel Corporation, device=0x1250, class=bridge (host) [no driver assigned] > pci0:6: Digital Equipment Corporation, device=0x0021, class=bridge (pci) [no driver assigned] > pci0:7: Intel Corporation, device=0x7000, class=bridge (isa) [no driver assigned] > pci0:8: Adaptec, device=0x7078, class=storage (scsi) [no driver assigned] > > Is this a BIOS or FreeBSD problem? Am I likely to have better sucess > with other FreeBSD version? The BIOS configures the PCI at boot time. It is not necessary to assign a driver, it will "just work". But enough about you... tell us about this passive backplane system; we were just discussing this as an "ideal design" on the SMP list. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.