Summary: PCI and DEC Unix

From: David Warren <warren_at_atmos.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:24 -0800 (PST)

Teh difinitive answer seems to be:

>>>>> Forwarded message from alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com


        Yes. They're in the Software Product Description for the
        particular version of Digital UNIX you're running. If
        you want to use a device not listed there you'll have to
        work with the vendor of it to get support.

<< End forwarded message

Also for those who didn't know already, you need to boot genvmunix to pick up
drivers for new hardware (or know the correct driver definition lines for your
config file)

This leave one more question:
If I decide to write a driver for a PCI device, How do I get the console to
recognize that it is there? I am guessing that you somehow need to tell it that it
is not talking to bios??? Anything else special?


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