From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shannon Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 01:44:51 +0000 Subject: Re: Ultra AXmp Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org In message <199807130638.XAA09243@dm.cobaltmicro.com>, "David S. Miller" writes : > Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 02:27:27 -0400 > From: Qiru Zhou > > I am not sure what other PC PCI card that I can put there. We have > SGI O2s with PCI slots. But I almost cannot put any PCI card from > retail store, since it is not compatible with O2 or there is simply > no driver for it (you may develop your own, if you really want.). > > As far as I've seen, any PCI card I've thrown into one of my Ultra's > was found on the bus and would work just fine once I did the driver > porting work. The only part where anything is problematic is where a > card has complex x86 firmware, and this matters really only for a > device which you'd like to boot off of. But all the Ultra/PCI systems > have on board bootable devices with open-firmware on them so it's a > non-issue. On this note, does Sun have anything that will emulate x86 BIOS? My Alphastation runs the BIOS for all my PCI cards via emulation in the ROM during bootup. -- csh - shendrix@widomaker.com - http://www.widomaker.com/~shendrix/myresume.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Meddle not in the affairs of Wizards, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with ketchup."