From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 24 14:26:18 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5998B37B405 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD7043FA3 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:26:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27155 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 22:26:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Feb 2003 22:26:21 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1OMP9hT017661; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:25:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030224164156.GB47253@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:26:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES src/sys/alpha/conf NOTES src/ Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Feb-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:54:05PM +0900, Takahashi Yoshihiro wrote: >> PC98 does not have ISA devices like atkbdc, vga, bt and aha. And >> then, some disk controllers don't work on PC98 even if they are PCI >> devices because it needs to have DISK BIOS for pc98. > > Is that just for booting, or any use? Many of these disk controllers > aren't bootable on Alpha or Sparc64 either -- but they are well supported > once you get the FreeBSD kernel running. All PCI drivers should at least compile on all arch's that support PCI. Thus, they should be in MI NOTES. Just because you can't boot from a card doesn't mean you can't stick it in a PCI slot and mount it as a non-boot filesystem. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message