* "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>:

| [ On Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 08:46:33 (-0400), Jason R Fink wrote: ]
| > Subject: Re: New port
| >
| > [ On Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 05:37:04 (-0700), Jason R Thorpe wrote: ]
| > >  
| > >  On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:19:59AM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
| > >  >
| > >  > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:33:39AM +0200, KukatMichael wrote:
| > >  > > communications controller) with SCSI, 2 serial ports, and LANCE
| > >  > > ethernet, this controller has its own 68000 and needs an own kernel for
| > >  > > it. (This could be stolen from the original MUNIX distribution first
| > >  > > :-).
| > >  >
| > >  > A Lance onto which you need to download 68k code to make it go?
| > >  > That sounds weird..
| > > 
| > > Not too strange.  Integrated Solutions, Inc. had Ethernet cards
| > > for their Qbus and VME systems that had LANCE-behind-68000, too.
| > 
| > also i have heard (or read - i dunno that was a while ago) the name
| > LANCE in reference to VME chassis SBC's when I did military work for the
| > US. I think they were only using VxWorks _on_those_cards_ (they used
| > hpux for the SBCs that users interacted with). I will check with some
| > contacts i have and see if they are still using them.
| 
| Unfortunately publicly available documentation for these boards, and
| indeed even documentation about how to talk to these onboard controllers
| from the kernel, is nearly non-existant so far as I can tell.  Even
| source licensees didn't get enough source to rebuild any of the firmware
| that was sometimes downloaded to these boards at boot time....

which is pretty much what i got back, some generic troubleshooting information. no documentation on the guts at all.

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