Subject: Re: ibus addresses [was Re: CVS commit: syssrc]
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/24/1999 10:14:56
Jonathan Stone wrote:

> In message <199911232249.JAA10497@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
> Simon Burge writes:
> 
> [addr locator for ibus]
> 
> >I'm curious about what this gains.  The 5100 only has a single `dc'...
> 
> Yes, but there are slots for 2 daughter cards.  daughtercards with dc
> chips (4 more ports each) supposedly exist.
> 
> Mind you, i've never seen a 5100, but that's what the spec says.

Maybe I should take a picture of one and put it somewhere :-)

> >The autoconf output now has the addresses (which is nicer) but you also
> >see a "pm ... not configured", which a 5100 can't have.  Here's the old:
> 
> >Is there a way not to be verbose about devices that aren't attached?
> 
> Yep.  Whoever merged the separate ibus vectors for the 3100 and 5100
> needs to change the match functions for ibus attached devices,
> so that devices only match on CPUs where they can exist.

Cool, this just answered the question I sent to Jason.

> (Or we could go back to theseparate attachments for 5100 onboard
> devices and 3100 onboard devices.)

Given the similarities, wouldn't this be a step backwards?

Simon.