At 01:14 PM 1/10/99 , you wrote:
>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.

It needs to know how the PCI INT lines are mapped so that interrupts can
properly be dispatched.
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