Subject: Re: DE205 supported in NetBSD?
To: William Wanders <william@tunix.kun.nl>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/13/1997 17:33:30
At 08:18 PM 6/12/97 -0400, Matt Thomas wrote:
>I now have a working DEC EtherWORKS III driver for NetBSD. It uses the
>bus_* stuff and should be MI. I've only created an ISA attachment for
>now. (I'll do the EISA one in a day or two). It seems to run fine under
>NetBSD/i386 1.2D. It should work under NetBSD/alpha (that's the point
>of MI drivers). However, my NetBSD/alpha machine only has a TurboChannel
>so I can't test it.
I compiled an Alpha kernel today and got some warnings. I also improved
the receive and transmit speed by 50% and 10% respectively and decreased
the system overhead by half. I also fixed up the ifmedia support so it's
cleaner.
>The driver is at http://www.3am-software.com/lc-970612.tar.gz and should
>be untarred into your src tree. lc.diffs contains a patch for
>sys/conf/files and sys/dev/isa/files.isa. It also has a sample
>config line at the front.
I screwed up last night and put up a wrongly named file on the web server.
Today's is http://www.3am-software.com/lc-970613.tar.gz
I promise I'm not going to look at this driver any more this weekend!
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