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Another message regarding getting the alphas running. In particular,
this is about the ethernet... The gist is to first try the latest
kernel...
Harvey
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From: David Paul Zimmerman <dpz@apple.com>
To: "Alpha Linux @ RedHat" <axp-list@redhat.com>, <abel@netvision.net.il>
Subject: Re: Trying to get X & net running on alphastation 255
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 15:52:53 -0700
>Not sure why you're having problems with the driver. It may be there
>is something funky about the interrupt handling in the AS255. Without
>access to an AS255, it's kind of difficult to find out what's going
>on. Maybe somebody else can help?
I remember having to make changes to the interrupt routing table to get a
(2nd) PCI de4x5 (de450 in my case) to work in my AS250. Perhaps this is
a related case? Look around the "AVANTI" sections of
arch/alpha/kernel/bios32.c, specifically pirq_tab and route_tab.
>The one thing you could try is compile a later version of the kernel.
>There have been some bug fixes in the PCI code w.r.t. bridge support.
>But given that the 255 is touted as an entry-level machine, I doubt
>that it contains a PCI bridge.
If it is related to the AS250, it might have a PCI/ISA bridge. I believe
my problems with the AS250 partially revolved around the ISA sound card
sitting on an interrupt that one of the Ethernets wanted to use. I can
dig up the relevant email if you're interested.
dp
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