[rescue] USB port card for sBus?

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Aug 25 08:25:17 CDT 2008


On Aug 24, 2008, at 11:30 PM, der Mouse wrote:

>> Actually, if the OS of choice is NetBSD (or OpenBSD, or FreeBSD) and
>> he used the SBUS->FPGA->PCI route, wouldn't he only need a SBUS->PCI
>> driver for the FPGA?
>
> Maybe.  I don't think PCI support is known to work on sparc32.  (I
> suspect it probably will, since endianness bugs probably got smoked  
> out
> with sparc64, but until it's tried, nobody really _knows_.)

In the mean time, the rest of that system could be worked out on a  
Ultra 1 or 2.



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