Subject: Re: Success with Aspen Alpine
To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/10/1999 16:14:09
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 03:48:58PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> As Matthew Jacob wrote...
> 
> > Excellent!
> 
> There are a number of things I have not tested yet. E.g. the Alpine has
> 3 PCI slots instead of 2 for the EB64+. But the EB64+ SRM did not care to
> much about that, so it could very well be that NetBSD is of the same
> opinion ;-)

It's not clear to me that it's possible for SRM or NetBSD to care.  They
just see devices on the PCI bus; they have no way of knowing, AFAIK, how
many physical connectors are wired on to the board.