[rescue] S-bus FDDI cards and NetBSD drivers, again.....

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Feb 18 19:30:36 CST 2002


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.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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