Subject: Re: Centris650 Video/NuBus Interrupts
To: John D. Smerdon <jds@smerdon.livonia.mi.us>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/24/1996 23:45:53
On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, John D. Smerdon wrote:

> I am seeing a nubus interrupt being generated only once with via2(vBufA)
> being 0xbf, which means to me that slot 15 requires some attention.

Slot 15, aka slot 0, is usually what internal video circuitry generates.

> The recent via.c change that added slot_ignore has code for via2 and rbv
> systems.  Does the via2 code in slot_ignore work on any non-rbv systems, or
> was it just a guess?

It was just a guess, and it's known to not work... yet.  The RBV version
seems to work on all supported hardware + the LCIII, strangely enough.

> fyi, an Asante nubus ethernet card works on a Centris650 if you don't mind
> waiting for if_ae to "timeout, restarting" for every packet.

Sounds like an interrupt problem, to me.

--scott