Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_R=E9f._:_Re:_Support_for_COMPAQ_Smart_Array_3200?=
To: None <jmaynard@texas.net>
From: Eric Delcamp <e.delcamp@wanadoo.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 12/21/1999 22:03:37
Hi !

If I have time (and authorization ;-), I will unplug all PCI card, and plug
the Ethernet card on each slot, to see if all slots are understood by
NetBSD.
And yes, it's Hot Plug PCI, and NX chipset (Quad PIII possible I think).

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@conmicro.cx>
To: <current-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: Réf. : Re: Support for COMPAQ Smart Array 3200


> On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 06:57:08PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> > So OK, it doesn't seem there is special handling necessary
> > in i386/pci/pchb.c. Thanks.
>
> One thing to note, in general, about PCI on Compaq (at least) servers:
There
> can be multiple PCI buses, and, especially on machines that have hot-plug
> PCI, those buses can be numbered nonsequentially. Linux (at least through
> 2.2.12) needs a patch to handle this; I don't know about *BSD.