Subject: Re: VGA vs. Miata (was: ISP qlogic HBA + NCR HBA testers sought)
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/03/1998 13:02:41
> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
>
> On 03 Sep 1998 18:49:41 +0200 
>  joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) wrote:
>
>  > One interesting thing, is that if I put a TGA2 in one of the three
>  > 32-bit slots (behind a PPB), the kernel crashes. It doesn't crash if I
>  > put an old S3 card in the same slot. Putting it in a 64-bit slot
>  > produces the same result as with the TGA2 (vga0 at isa0).
>
> How does the kernel crash?
>
> Sounds like the Firmware is Confused...
>

Actually, isn't this crash expected right now, pending a wscons update
for the tga2?  It's one of the things I'm planning to hack on during the
long weekend, if someone else doesn't get to it first.

  --Ross Harvey