Re: Pegasos PCI-bus scan works

Frank Wille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc
Organization Privates Internet Ostwestfalen/Lippe e.V.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim Rightnour wrote:

>> So my assumption is that the BAT-settings are ignored and SmartFirmware
>> redirects the installation of the exception handlers to another memory
>> region. :P
>> 
>> Hmm... which means translation has to be disabled somewhere. But does OFW
>> still work then? At least it still works with the MMU-tables of the
>> kernel. Maybe only disable it during oea_init()?
> 
> Are you booting the kernel directly still,

Yes.


> or are you booting via ofwboot?

To be honest, I don't even know how to do that, or how to build ofwboot.

I will send you my modified pegasospci.c in a private email, so you can
check yourself. After some failed attempts to disable translation temporarily
I have delayed oea_init() after pmap_bootstrap(). This way everything works
fine and I'm reaching askroot.


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