On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Dan Winship wrote:

> > The bmac driver in Linux indeed uses some of the special "FCR" (i.e.
> > Feature Control Register) bits in mac-io (ohare, heathrow or paddington).
> 
> I don't think the bug is in the bmac driver itself: NetBSD's bmac
> initialization code is pretty much identical to both Linux's and
> Darwin's. I suspect the bug is somewhere else in the macppc dev stuff
> (either in the PCI code since obio attaches to pci, or in the more
> generic code), since I've seen basically the same failure mode (device
> fails to work if/unless OF touches it) in pciide, bmac, and ahc.

?? I thought the ahc problem was we needed to add a delay (which AFAICT
you should bug Jason about, and then if there's no objections just
commit). What pciide problem is there? It's fine on my Blue G3. ??

I'd suspect problems in how we handle the obio stuff.

Take care,

Bill