From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC 6 PCI device probe failure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:06:39 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: db379c54-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue Jun 24 23:48:27 EDT 2003, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca wrote: > I've done some more fiddling with the VPC 6 install. Video is working > fine, but the kernel does not see any PCI (or PNP) devices during the > bus scan. This explains why the virtual 21140 ethernet isn't getting > configured. > > Was there any magic required to get the kernel to work under vmware? > > Meanwhile I'm going to install a FreeBSD and see what it thinks about > PCI devices. > > --lyndon This came up a year or so ago, so maybe things have changed, but at that time the VirtualPC docs claimed it emulated an Intel Triton chipset, but it was discovered it didn't emulate the PCI config registers in that chipset. This matters on Plan9 because it does raw accesses to probe the PCI space whereas other operating systems do BIOS calls to obtain that information.