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> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 03:35:44PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> anyway - FreeBSD 5.4/amd64 (tried booting from install CD) allocates
>> different IRQ for every device and all works fine?
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more strange - builtin network card ACTUALLY WORKS with FreeBSD-current.
with every other OS it isn't detected at all (not detected as PCI device 
at all, not just no driver)!

magic? maybe but i will ask on FreeBSD groups.

looks like Microstar made BIOS that f...s things up intentionally so it 
will work with exactly one version of "the only right" OS with "the only 
right" extra drivers from their CD.

not good. maybe some day AMD64 systems (or other such cheap&fast) will be 
available without PC BIOS at all, with some other firmware similar to 
Alpha SRM or maybe something like this on Mac's, without 1MB of code in OS 
needed just to know how to configure devices without much success.