From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 22 4:30:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D50737B406 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 04:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17AUKG-0004rc-00; Wed, 22 May 2002 13:30:40 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4MAsmij035366 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 12:54:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4MAsmOt035365 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 May 2002 12:54:48 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: 164SX Hardware notes Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sten wrote: > Nics : > Beware of dual port nic's with pci bridge chips. > I got one that really kills my alpha ( openboot errors and > fbsd kernel crashes during boot ). I have a DEC card that has 1*de+2*isp (!) behind a PCI bridge. SRM happily recognizes all of these devices. I think a generic warning about cards using PCI-PCI bridges is inappropriate. (For those who notice that I've never mentioned a PC164SX before: It's running OpenBSD.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message