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Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...




On 7/27/2021 11:43 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
On Jul 27, 2021, at 1:19 PM, Istvan Gyenes <igyenes%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
No luck yet. I was trying to add a DE205 but I was unable to add it as an EISA card. According to the DE205 manual there is a config utility which can be run on a PC and set the card to work in EISA mode but I do not have a ISA/ESIA based PC any more...

I was able to add a DE200 (one time only) but it uses the same depca driver and also has the "fails to clear memory" problem.

The DE422 is working fine under Digital Unix 4.0E.
Ok, so we should be able to make it work on NetBSD.  What info does the ECU say about the DE422 (specifically where it’s memory is located)?

Here is the relevant output of the ECU

  Slot 4 - Digital EISA Ethernet Controller (DE422-SA)
   Ethernet Network Interface
    Network Interrupt.................... IRQ 5
    Network Controller Buffer............ Address = 0D0000H - 0DFFFF (64K)
    Remote Boot.......................... Disable
    Remote Boot Time-Out................. 30 Seconds
    Network Interface.................... Twisted Pair

and the dmesg entry (on NetBSD 9.99.87 (INSTALL) #3: Tue Jul 27 16:28:21 CEST 2021):

[   1.0000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 4: DEC DE422 Ethernet
[   1.0000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xd0000-0xdffff
[   1.0000000] le0 at depca2
[   1.0000000] le0: failed to clear memory at 0 (0xff != 0xaa)


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istvan



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