[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.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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