Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 18:44:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Cc: ewv@boom.bsdi.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards Message-ID: <199605120144.SAA00757@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199605112132.AAA23211@cantina.clinet.fi> from Heikki Suonsivu at "May 12, 96 00:32:35 am"
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> > From: Eric Varsanyi <ewv@boom.bsdi.com> > It must only be certain models then... the ones we've had trouble with > were the P54NP4's (Neptune EISA/PCI). It isn't a BSD/OS problem, > these wouldn't even run the DOS diagnostics that come with the > EP2's. The I_LINE register in the second device is left programmed > ... > They've probably corrected the problems in their newer boards (the > Neptune is at least a couple of years old). > > Intel platos will not probe bridges correctly either, and isn't plato also > using neptune chipset? Chipset problem, or just too old bios? Chipset limitation. The neptune chip set was designed before any PCI-PCI bridges had been designed, thus they had no way to know how to handle them, and no way to test that it would work. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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