Subject: Re: INSTALL kernel support
To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 12/05/1997 07:48:30
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:09:30 +0100
Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:
> It does. But the Compaq Deskpro has a strange PCI system, and NetBSD
> incorreclty detects the PCI Mode (detected as mode 2, where it should be
> mode 1). You have to recompile your own kernel with
> options PCI_CONF_MODE=1
> in the config file.
> Or you can patch your kenel binary with gdb to set the value of the
> variable pci_mode to 1.
I thought Matthias Drochner made this probe more robust?
Wow, it would be _REALLY_ nice to fix this before the release goes out.
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