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Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:00:32 +0200
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 164SX Hardware notes
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl> 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.

Some SRM versions only seem to intialize known chips behind bridges.

> (For those who notice that I've never mentioned a PC164SX before:
> It's running OpenBSD.)

And NetBSD has PCI initialisation code - possibly OpenBSD too.

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