Subject: Re: uVAXII with Emulex 3rd
To: Tim Shoppa <shoppa@krl.caltech.edu>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/29/1995 20:24:42
> 
> > No, it is not possible. The interrupt vector is dynamically allocated
> > by the uba driver from the floating vector space, and told to the
> > controller. It that should fail you would get noticed on the console
> > about that. Your problem is that the ctlr stops in the middle
> > of it's own initialization.
> > -- Ragge
> 
> 
> Or that it is being polled so often by the driver that the controller
> is incapable of completing its initialization.  A month or so ago
> Ken Wellsch related his diagnosis of this problem on Dilog controllers,
> and gave the differences between his waterloo-uda.c that fixed this 
> and the standard netbsd-uda.c.  I wouldn't be surprised if the
> Emulex controllers require the same fix, as both the Dilog and
> Emulex are microprocessor-based controllers.
> 
Maybe, but his changes are in the generic kernel distributed
with the miniroot filesystem, so it should work anyway.
-- Ragge