Multiple PCI controllers

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 16 01:54:31 UTC 2010


> I think there were not multiple-domain machines that FreeBSD ran on in 
> previous releases in general.

  Power Macs have up to 3 PCI buses, with each one having bus number 0 
at the host bridge. FreeBSD 6.* was fine with that, except if there was 
a conflict in bus/slot/function. Fortunately it looked like OpenFirmware 
was careful to avoid creating these conflicts when doing bus assignment.

later,

Peter.


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