Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:23:56 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: !! Emergency !! Help FreeBSD 3.0 with IBM Netfinity 5000 Message-ID: <19990321132356.M11159@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <4825673A.00577C58.00@tw.ibm.com>; from hawkkuan@tw.ibm.com on Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 11:42:11AM %2B0800 References: <4825673A.00577C58.00@tw.ibm.com>
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On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 11:42:11AM +0800, hawkkuan@tw.ibm.com wrote: > Recenlty IBM Taiwan had a large project to prompt FreeBSD in Taiwan >elementary >school. We use 600 sets IBM Netfinity 5000 server in this project. > > We had some problems with IBM Netfinity 5000 with FreeBSD, The most >important >is that there is 2 set of PCI bridge of Netfinity 5000. When I installed >the netfinity 5000 and >use "dmesg" command. System can regonized all chip set on mainboard, >include 2 PCI bridge >chip set and 1 PCI-ISA bridge. > >==== IBM Netfinity 5000 Bus Architecture ==== > > PCI bus 0 connected with on board AIC-7895, S3 Video chip & AMD >79cXXX NIC and >only "1" free PCI slot. > > PCI bus 1 connected with 4 PCI slots , 2 of them are PCI/ISA share >slot. > >====== The most problems we meet ====== > > > All adaptor (we try Intel Ether express pro) only can be regonized on >PCI bus 0 , but >no matter what we have tried, we can't install any adaptor on PCI bus 1 >slots!! >Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: >chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1166 device=0007)> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0 >chip1: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=1166 device=0005)> rev 0x02 on pci0.0.1 I guess the problem is multiple host-PCI bridges. This is something we need to deal with at XFree86 too. Is it correct that there is no generic way of handling these? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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