Bug 19805

Summary: not installable on old-fashioned dx50
Product: Base System Reporter: Norbert Koch <NKoch>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Norbert Koch 2000-07-09 16:50:01 UTC 
I could not install bsd on an old Tulip Vision Line dx50 pc.
The same is true for OpenBSD and NetBSD.
(Linux works ;-)
The problem (for FreeBSD) is the probing for pnp devices.
At address 3c3 there seems to be a critical port which
leeds to a hang-up.

Fix: 

Quick and dirty:
Elimination of pnp scanning in the kernel.
Is there a kernel switch I did not find?
If it is so: sorry, just a RTFM problem.
Comment 1 Norbert Koch 2000-07-10 20:01:08 UTC 
Hello Sheldon.
It has 20mb installed.
The only problem for this pre-historic system is the pnp-scanning.
Everything else works. (See my writing ;-)
So this was only an informational not a problem report.
Bye
Norbert.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za]On Behalf Of
> Sheldon Hearn
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:16 PM
> To: NKoch@gmx.de
> Subject: Re: misc/19805: not installable on old-fashioned dx50 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 08:48:11 MST, NKoch@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > >Description:
> > I could not install bsd on an old Tulip Vision Line dx50 pc.
> > The same is true for OpenBSD and NetBSD.
> 
> How much memory does this system have?  Specifically, does it have the
> required 16MB or more? :-)
> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
Comment 2 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-26 00:12:03 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed


Can this PR be closed? It sounds like this problem only affects a 
small number of now-ancient PCs, so unless you can suggest patches 
it is unlikely to get fixed.
Comment 3 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-26 00:36:35 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: closed->feedback


Whoops, I didn't actually mean to close the PR.
Comment 4 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-01-12 01:59:38 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout (4+ months).