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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-12 17:41:35 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-12 17:41:35 +0000
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Since i don't see that anybody is implementing a more correct EISA
probing anytime soon, make EISA_SLOTS a fully supported option. It's required for the HP NetServer LC series machines. Next stop: make dset(8) aware of it as well.
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# LINT -- config file for checking all the sources, tries to pull in
# as much of the source tree as it can.
#
-# $Id$
+# $Id: LINT,v 1.314 1997/02/22 09:31:37 peter Exp $
#
# NB: You probably don't want to try running a kernel built from this
# file. Instead, you should start from GENERIC, and add options from
@@ -914,6 +914,14 @@ options AHC_SCBPAGING_ENABLE
# default.
options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO
+# By default, only 10 EISA slots are probed, since the slot numbers
+# above clash with the configuration address space of the PCI subsystem,
+# and the EISA probe is not very smart about this. This is sufficient
+# for most machines, but in particular the HP NetServer LC series comes
+# with an onboard AIC7770 dual-channel SCSI controller on EISA slot #11,
+# thus you need to bump this figure to 12 for them.
+options "EISA_SLOTS=12"
+
#
# PCI devices:
#
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