Subject: Re: Mystical isacfg incantation for DE205?
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/21/2001 21:35:00
At 12:15 AM 3/22/2001 -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
>Ok, so I have my AXPpci33 here and it actually runs. Good. Now I want
>to add a de205 to it (in addition to the PCI ethernet and wide scsi
>boards I have).

Try add_de205 at the SRM prompt.  There should be a built-in script to
do it.

>I need to use isacfg so I don't end up with PCI boards sharing the IRQ
>with the de205 (and thereby panicing the kernel). Fine.
>
>I tried this incantation that I got off of the Q web site (on one line):
>
>isacfg -slot 1 -dev 0 -mk -handle DE200-LE -irq0 5 -iobase0 300
>     -membase d0000 -memlen0 10000 -etyp 1 -enadev 1
>
>This gives me the message "ISA table full" and subsequent "isacfg -slot 1"
>tries don't show the card. Actually, it is a lot of work when a simple:
>isacfg -slot 1 -dev 0 -mk   would suffice (giving the same error).
>If I really want to save keystrokes I can fail exactly the same way with
>"add_de205".

Try doing isacfg -init first and then add_de205.

>If I boot a GENERIC kernel then I either get a shared IRQ 5 + panic or
>I take all PCI boards out and get a working lc0:
>
>lc0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f iomem 0xd0000-0xd07ff irq 5: DE205-AC
>lc0: address 00:00:f8:51:24:12, 128KB RAM, 2KB window
>
>There are two jumpers on the board (W0 and W1) and both are unjumpered.
>The board has written on it that this means "EEPROM" (the other choices
>are 200, 280, and EISA. EISA?).

Yes EISA.

>What am I supposed to give to isacfg for this thing to work?
>
>(Come to think of it, should I isacfg the VGA card as well?)
>
>Incidentally, is there some documentation at the big Q site on isacfg
>in the SRM? I'm coming up a little short here on what all of those
>options mean.

What's your current isacfg (e.g what's the output of >>> show config)?
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