[rescue] USB / Firewire

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:08:23AM -0500, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:

> >But the question is this: The Tango card has openfirmware on it, so I
> >was wondering if I installed it in my U30, would solaris recognize it
> >properly?
> 
> Not without quite a bit of OFW hacking.  Macintoshes and Suns have 
> different OFW dictionaries.  I really wish that weren't so, since I 
> thought one of the big wins of OFW was supposed to be that the host 
> machine doesn't have to know much about the card at all to make it Just 
> Work.
> 
> >I know that Solaris 9 has both firewire and USB drivers in it, and I
> >was wondering if it would be able to use the Tango card? Anyone have
> >any thoughts on this?
> 
> The other cards that I've tried this with did not work.  I suspect that 
> if you know Forth and have fairly deep knowledge of both the Macintosh 
> and Sun dictionaries, it'd be fairly straightforward to write a piece 
> of Forth code to save in nvram to act as a compatibility layer.

That would be a darn cool project for someone to undertake.  I also
think a forthos for either system, written at the ofw level would rock.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd