Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:15:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jonas@mcs.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI probing behind bridge? Message-ID: <199606281815.LAA08158@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960628031323.6188A-100000@sasami> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Jun 28, 96 03:19:50 am
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> 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. I meant only that the problem was not in the fact that there were bridge chips involved for which there were no drivers assigned. In a correct BIOS environment bridge chips do not need drivers. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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