On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:17:22PM +0000, john heasley wrote:
> > Unfortunately just adding the device to pcidevs and pcidevs.h doesn't help.
> > Those promise cards have some specific code in sys/dev/pci/pdcsata.c which
> > checks for the id. If you take a short look at that code you'll see that the
> > driver uses a special handling of those promise cards.  (i refer to $NetBSD:
> > pdcsata.c,v 1.2 2004/11/28 14:34:31 bouyer Exp $ written by Manuel Bouyer.)
> 
> a quick glance at this driver, it does not seem to handle pci buss
> endianness.  afaik there is no automatic handling, so the register
> reads/writes are probably off.

bus_space() handles it.

> 
> Has anyone tried a Promise SATA card on a big-endian box?

I developed the driver on a Ultra/5

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