Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:46:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Alan Lai <clai33@uwo.ca>, Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC Message-ID: <20030222214529.D95995@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20030220170709.GK60813@elvis.mu.org> References: <20030220154234.GA12821@constans.gldis.ca> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0302201155230.6512-100000@panther.uwo.ca> <20030220170709.GK60813@elvis.mu.org>
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The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Alan Lai wrote: > > freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile > > them for ultrasparc machines? > > is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? > > if so, whats the work that i have to do? > > please advice > > You first need to convert the card to use the busdma API if it's not > using it already, and you then have to deal with endianness issues > (FreeBSD/sparc64 is big endian). Look at the > http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/busdma/ for more information on busdma. > > More specifically, you can look at the xl(4) driver which has recently > been converted to busdma and made endian-safe. > > > is the freebsd-sparc kernel not open source? i cannot compile/custimize it > > myself? > > Err, the FreeBSD project is entirely opensource. The biggest part of > the kernel is MI (machine independant) and thus doesn't have to be > changed to work on other architectures. A smaller part of the kernel is > MD (machine dependant) and needs to be written for every different > architecture we support. The sparc64 specific sources of the FreeBSD > kernel can be found in /usr/src/sys/sparc64. > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Alan Lai wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am a newbie to freebsd, I want to clarify something before I get into > > > > using it. > > > > > > > > I plan to put freebsd5 on a sun e250, this is a pci based ultrasparc > > > > machine, but at the same time, this machine has a non-sun hardware, which > > > > is a network card thats originally for x86 machine. This card is working > > > > probably under solaris w/ some non-official driver, & is supported under > > > > linux/x86. My question is, will this card, intel fastethernet 100, or > > > > 3com590 work under freebsd/ultrasparc w/ some tiny tinkering? > > > > > > It's unlikely, since the drivers for those cards are commented out in > > > sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC. The drivers probably need work to use busdma. > > I don't remember whether 3c590 cards are supported by xl(4). If so, it > should just work on sparc64. It hasn't been uncommented in GENERIC yet, > but I'll do it a second. The Intel card won't work on sparc64 yet, but > I'm currently working on the fxp(4) driver for the busdma conversion. > Once this is done, we need to make it endian-safe in order for it to > work on sparc64. > > Cheers, > Maxime > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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