Subject: Re: ISA Arcnet cards
To: Port Amiga <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 02/25/1999 11:53:23
On 25.02.99, 01:37:22, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Patryk [iso-8859-2] Łogiewa wrote:
> 
> > Napisane 24-Lut-99 przez: David Brownlee...
> > >I have two short 8bit ISA Arcnet cards (for some strange reason).
> > >If anyone would like to look at adding supprt to NetBSD for these
> > >cards
> > 
> > ISA bus is not directly accessible from the Amiga address space. First there
> > need to be a support for some kind of bridge e.g. GoldenGate or the CBM's
> > BridgeBoards. And AFAIK there is not.

I think OpenBSD has support for some bridge boards, I remember that
the drivers were there and working, but never integrated into NetBSD.
Reason enough for some people to switch to OpenBSD.


-- 
Bernd Sieker

Unix, the solution to the W2k problem.