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From: se@parc03.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Opti PCI bridge not supported
Date: 7 Dec 1994 14:17:39 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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In article <3bki7u$55u@bee.uspnet.usp.br>, mario@lsi.usp.br (Mario Donato Marino) writes:
|> I have a motherboard PCI/VESA with Opti chipset. FreeBSD has detected
|> that I have a PCI MB with Opti Chipset, has scanned for the PCI controllers
|> but has reported that the MB has a PCI bridge that it doesn't support.

The PCI scan code prints "unsupported" 
if it doesn't know how to deal with 
some particular PCI device.

This is usually the case for PCI chips
that are initialized by the BIOS, since
your system couldn't have loaded the 
kernel else ...

Ie. its in general nothing to worry about!



If your system doesn't boot correctly
and you suppose it might be related to
some PCI peripheral, then send mail to
my address.

If you have detailed data on PCI chip 
sets other than the Intel Saturn and
Mercury and make them available to me,
then I'll be happy to add support for
verbose boot messages describing the 
currently active chip set parameters.

This may help debug in case the system 
doesn't work under FreeBSD because of 
chip set problems ...


Regards, STefan
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