FDDI, was: Re: [rescue] u2 drive trays

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Tue Aug 19 12:21:23 CDT 2003


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Paul Weissmann wrote:

> to what state did you get w/ the porting? does sparc64 require the
> conversion of the fpa/pdq driver to support bus_dma(9)?

Yes.  I'm just starting the port, but it looks straightforward.  Getting
bus_dma to work will make it automagically work on quite a few
architectures, so it's a worthwhile timesink.

> i'm looking into hacking the driver to run on the hppa port.
> foremost, i need to do the latter (bus_dma) to even starting getting
> it work.

Well, hey, we can bang heads together on the project.  I'm a total
newbie to the inner guts of that part of OpenBSD.

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