Subject: Re: your mail
To: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/12/2001 15:08:12
	You might want to ask on port-arm26 - I believe some arm26
	machines include Dallas 1-wire bus components and may have a
	driver.

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, James Sharp wrote:

>
> Feel free to tell me if I'm smoking too much crack....
>
> I'm in the early phases of developing a driver for the Dallas
> Semiconductor 1-Wire bus system.  The bus controller plugs into the serial
> port on a machine and then control & data messages are sent to the
> controller.
>
> For the moment, I'm trying to get the controller to attach as "onewire* at
> com?" on my Alpha.  I have some basic _match and _attach functions that do
> nothing but printf() and return.  The printfs never showed up in the dmesg
> output until I experimented around a bit & set the drivers to attach at
> isa?, then the showed up.
>
> The main question I have...is the "com" device (and other serial
> interface devices) attachable to?  Or is there a better way of doing this?
>
>
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