From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 01:20:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA17471 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 01:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA17461 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 01:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA08204; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 03:19:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 03:19:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Terry Lambert cc: Lars Jonas Olsson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI probing behind bridge? In-Reply-To: <199606272029.NAA05768@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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] > The BIOS configures the PCI at boot time. > It is not necessary to assign a driver, it will "just work". Actually Terry, it won't. There is a patch to pcisupport.c that I had to apply to get my 0new ZNYX 314s to work correctly. I'm not sure if Matt Thomas committed the changes, but I've been running them (and the if_de drivers) for more than a month. Lars, I think Matt Thomas is @ IETF this week, so I can get you the patches that I'm running... They might fix your problem. You will also want to be running -stable. > But enough about you... tell us about this passive backplane system; > we were just discussing this as an "ideal design" on the SMP list. I've got a dream of getting a 20 slot monster and running 4 to 10 single processor machines in it as a front end machine cluster. I don't think I'll be able to justify it for a while though. (Hummm... Maybe a web-farm box...) Just think, one of these boxes and a rack full of rack-mounted drive enclosures. (Hey! Newsserver farm!) I'll dream on and stuff. Have a good one. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|