[rescue] S-bus FDDI cards and NetBSD drivers, again.....
George Adkins
george at webbastard.org
Mon Feb 18 19:28:51 CST 2002
> >CDDI media converter would be nice too as I've got some PCI CDDI cards
> >that should also interface (and which already have NetBSD drivers).
>
> 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.
>
Right, we've been over this before. But, isn't there already a working SMT
implementation already out there? i.e. the SunFDDI driver?
How difficult can it be? if you can have <cough> *Linux" binary
compatibility, how hard can it be to write a shim to work with the SunFDDI
driver?
George
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