On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:05:05PM -0700, Roland Hui wrote:
> I've been encountering some trouble during the bootup process on NetBSD
> 1.4.  The motherboard that I am using has no isa slots, and I want to
> rule out the possibility that NetBSD won't run on a system with no
> ISA bus.

I assume this is on i386

> 
> -Will NetBSD 1.4 work on a motherboard with only PCI slots and no
> ISA slots?
> -Does the bootup process expect an ISA bus to be present, and will it
> get confused when it doesn't find it.

No, this should'nt be a problem.
Note that even without any isa slots you still have a few built-in devices
that can't be on PCI [this is from an ASUS p5a without anything in ISA slots] :
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2

If your motherboard doesn't have floppy and keyboard at ISA you'll have
troubles, for sure :) The math coproc has to be here as well.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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