[rescue] S-bus FDDI cards and NetBSD drivers, again.....
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Feb 18 19:32:51 CST 2002
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:30:36PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 18, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > This has been rehashed several times. The challenge to writting
> > > drivers for the SBUS fddi boards is writing a complete SMT
> > > implementation as there isn't any in hardware. I belive the hardware
> > > it self is relatively well documented and should be easy to write
> > > drivers for.
> >
> > Can he reuse the SMT used for the DEC cards, or do those cards do it in
> > hardware?
>
> The DEC cards do it in firmware...there's an MC68000 on the board.
Well, that's cool, even if it doesn't help up immediately.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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