[rescue] Time to replace the IPX

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Sat Dec 20 18:08:21 CST 2003


On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:53:01AM +0100, Paul Weissmann wrote:

> > A PWS {433|500|600} should do well on that job, 
> But you can't really use the 64-bit slots in the machines w/ the
> older (buggy) Pyxis-chipset/PCI-bridge combination.
IIRC all PCI slots in the PWS are behind a PCI-PCI bridge that 
hides the Pyxis DMA bug. 
[google]
Ups, no. The 64 bit slots are on the primary PCI bus.

On the other side: How many 64-bit PCI cards do you have and do you 
really need it? I would have to look at the bus_dma(9) routines of 
NetBSD/alpha to confirm this, but I have somthing in the back of my
head that NetBSD/alpha has a work around for the Pyxis DMA bug.
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         Jochen

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