Re: au1550 support IDE harddisk or not?
Simon Burge <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbmips |
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| Organization | Wasabi Systems, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
"Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > Simon Burge wrote: > > > Needing PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE is a function of what the firmware you have > > on the board does, so this should be a kernel config file option and > > not an std.alchemy option. It's entirely possible that another Alchemy > > based board has firmware that sets up PCI nicely for us. > > > Given what I've seen in the YAMON source code, I'd be shocked and amazed > if this were true. That said, *I* made modifications to YAMON to do > just that, but even in this case I think PCI_NETBSD_CONFIGURE is OK, > because in the worst case the configuration will change between what the > PROM is using and what the kernel uses. But this will happen after the > kernel is loaded (possibly from a PCI device) and before it starts using > PCI. There's nothing that says YAMON has be used in every Alchemy board design... Simon. -- Simon Burge <[email protected]> NetBSD Support and Service: http://www.wasabisystems.com/