Subject: Re: DigiBoard
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 03/08/1998 13:35:58
Greg A. Woods wrote:
> BTW, we tried using the BB2016 under FreeBSD at Leitch, and it didn't
> work.  The driver only reads one byte from the interrupt status register
> and thus cannot support 16 ports.  The NetBSD boca manual page suggests
> treating it as two separate boards sharing one IRQ, which might work
> assuming the hardware properly splits the interrupts onto two registers,

For the archives also, I've used this board, and it did work as suggested
in the man page, but I had to move the two internal com ports up above
it... i.e. the boca wanted com0-15, under any other config combo not all
the ports would work.

							David Maxwell