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

[Paul Weissmann]

Jonathan C. Patschke [jp at celestrion.net] wrote:
> 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.

after the bus_dma conversion there's still be the big-endiannes fixes
to make. 
... and testing/bug-fixing (:
 
the defpa.* bus_dma changes, were, according to the netbsd diffs
quite straightforward, if i interpret it right.
the pqd.* changes are a magnitude larger

> > 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.

same here


	- paul

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