On Thu, 1 May 1997 23:51:45 -0400 (EDT) 
 John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington-heights.ma.us> wrote:

 > Well, as expected the EISA hacks as suggested here previously didn't
 > help on the mutant AIC7880 machine at work.  I've still had no luck in
 > getting it to probe the PCI buses correctly to find the AIC on the PCI
 > bus.
 > 
 > One suggestion was perhaps this machine has multiple primary PCI buses
 > and only probes one of them.  Is this something that could be fixed in
 > the current i386 framework?

What kind of system is it, exactly?  What configuration mode does the
kernel display for the pci bus?  Have you tried building a kernel
with:

options		PCI_CONF_MODE=x

...where x == 1 or 2, opposite of what is displayed at boot?  You might
give that a whirl just to see what happens.

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