Subject: Re: "ofpci" and "ofppb" in NetBSD/sparc64
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/07/2002 15:53:31
der Mouse wrote:
> Yes, it should. But since when has this become dogma strong enough to
> justify overriding a port's portmaster, and thereby presumably breaking
> that port until someone figures out how to fix the MI stuff, and does
> it?
FWIW, AFAIK PCI stuff worked fine on sparc64 before ofppb/ofpci
was introduced. AFAIK ofppb/ofpci only provides convenient way
to match OF tree nodes and PCI devices, nothing more.
TRT is add necessary hooks to generic PCI mode, not inventing
new pseudobus.
Jaromir
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