Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:56:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AHC/WD driver status... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901190954340.40696-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990118143853.10910A-100000@aries.fortean.com>
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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Bruce M. Walter wrote: > > Getting the 2940 to work shouldn't be too hard. I'll take a crack at > > it later this week. It should be just a matter of finishing off some > > of the bus dma stuff in the driver and I've been meaning to do that > > for some time. > > Fantastic! I was hoping such a thing could be done. I figured since ahc > was already CAMified it wouldn't be too bad, but just getting FreeBSD > onto this box has become a challenge without IDE or AHC support. > Attempting to bootstrap from NetBSD at this late stage was a laughable > experience :( > > I'm supposing IDE is waiting on the work Soren is reproducing from his > stolen machine/tapes as opposed to the atapibus/cam discussion on -alpha > late last year. Currently NetBSD-current has support for ahc/ide, but > alas it's ST550 support is flaky... The console barely works and it only > supports the TGA from X, which I don't have. It would be possible to hammer a pio-only port of wdc into the alpha but I don't know when that can happen. It has to be moved to the new-bus framework soon anyway for Garret's i386 isa renovation project. We'll see. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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