5.3 beta1 is no go for me.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Aug 30 06:50:45 PDT 2004


In message <20040830114821.GK59909 at cicely12.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes:

>> The last PCI chip - now it should continue with ISA devices.
>> Could still have something to do with the EISA bridge :(
>> Missing ISA range mapping maybe?
>
>Mmmm - I oversaw that you have an additional PCI bus with a bridged
>device on it.
>Damn - you said that you can't open the maschine as I would suggest
>moving the card into a slot on the primary bus or keep it out.

Yeah, I'm a bit handicapped at the moment: my bike threw me off.

>Wilko,  I heard rumours that you've send Poul the box?

Yes.

>Did it ever run FreeBSD before?

Yes, it has been running and runs 4.x fine, and also with the fxp
card now in it.

>I can at least tell for shure that we have some bugs in alpha PCI code
>that showed up on the AS4100 with a bridged card in the secondary bus
>in that access was tried through the primary bus.
>I think bridged cards are supported at the primary bus only right now.

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