missing pcib?

Greetings,

I've been attempting to get FBSD 6.1(R)elease (G)eneric to work for
awhile now.

Essentially, I have a Symbios 53C896 on the motherboard of an
Intergraph TDZ2000 GT1. The problem being that the bridge that
connects the '896 controller is skipped somehow.

pcib0, pcib1, then pcib3 are all that comes up. Of course, the '896 is
on the pcib2. :/

FBSD 4.11 (RG) can see the controller, and 5.0(RG) doesn't. I've
*attempted* to see what changed between the two, however, not only has
the source code changed, the source trees changed as well between the
two versions. (Thus, I am lost!)

** What's the general rule about contacting the source coder within
the FreeBSD community? **
(Stefan Esser, in this case..)

Understandably, not everyone should, as these people would be swamped,
and no new releases would come out. Is there some sort of procedure to
pointing out a bug? ("It worked, now it doesn't.." Not really a big
thing, as it only seems to be my machine! <grr!>)

dmesgs (-v 6.1 and 4.9), pciconf -lv, and scanpci outputs can be found
here...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/49dfc32ab3593bbd/8bdd58ee98b58589#8bdd58ee98b58589

another post...
http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.hardware/browse_thread/thread/b14c5856dbc656bf/ea566d56535c1965?lnk=st&q=workdamyou%40yahoo.ca&rnum=5#ea566d56535c1965

and a link to a site that has a copy of my MPTable...
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43316

dev.pcib.0.%desc: MPTable Host-PCI bridge
dev.pcib.0.%driver: pcib
dev.pcib.0.%parent: legacy0
dev.pcib.1.%desc: PCI-PCI bridge
dev.pcib.1.%driver: pcib
dev.pcib.1.%location: slot=0 function=1
dev.pcib.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1166 device=0x0005 subvendor=0x0080
subdevice=0x0000 class=0x060400
dev.pcib.1.%parent: pci0
dev.pcib.3.%desc: MPTable Host-PCI bridge
dev.pcib.3.%driver: pcib
dev.pcib.3.%parent: legacy0
dev.pci.0.%desc: PCI bus
dev.pci.0.%driver: pci
dev.pci.0.%parent: pcib0
dev.pci.1.%desc: PCI bus
dev.pci.1.%driver: pci
dev.pci.1.%parent: pcib1
dev.pci.3.%desc: PCI bus
dev.pci.3.%driver: pci
dev.pci.3.%parent: pcib3

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