RE: PCI to PCI Bridge with 2 independant clocks

[johnp@iia.com]

I was under the impression that the DEC bridge chips required the clocks for 
each PCI bus to be identical frequencies.

John Providenza



> From:          Jim Ulrich <jimu@pathlight.com>
> Subject:       RE: PCI to PCI Bridge with 2 independant clocks
> Date:          Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:29:53 -0400
> To:            Mailing List Recipients <pci-sig-request@znyx.com>

> Two quickees-
> 
> First, the errata about the Intel i960RP and async mode is supposedly
> for the engineering steppings only (as far as we can tell from the
> available errata sheets).
> 
> Second, try buying the DEC bridge card and provide an independant clock
> for the secondary bus (rather than using the on-board PLL derived clock).
> This might require some board hacking, but should be "do-able" (don't
> you like those fancy engineering terms).
> 
> Jim Ulrich
> jimu@pathlight.com
> 
> 
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