Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:00:57 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase Message-ID: <199611150700.JAA06790@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199611142224.RAA27830@etinc.com> from dennis at "Nov 14, 96 05:24:47 pm"
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> >> Is SDL forthcoming with the technical information required > >> to write and maintain drivers? > >> > >> Jim Shankland > >> Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. > >> > > > >Yes, I have written the driver with the information they have given me. > >They have been very helpful. They even supplied and shipped 2 N2 boards > >and a N2pci board from the USA to me here in South Africa. > > > >The bulk of the driver has to do with the Hitachi HD64570 chip that the > >board is using and that information is in the Hitachi data sheets. The > >information about how the chip is interfaced to the rest of the board > >is actually very little, because most (all) of the work is done by the > >chip. The rest of the board is actually just RAM, bus arbitration logic > >and line drivers. > > gee, sounds just like their (and our) original "archaic" board designs! > Wonder what Jim was talking about....... > Maybe he was talking about the N2pci? It does not have its own RAM on the card but use the system memory and get/put the data directly from/to there. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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