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Re: ISA Arcnet cards



Napisane 25-Lut-99 przez: Bernd Sieker...

>>>>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.

Yes. OpenBSD is AFAIK the only alternative OS available for Amiga that
supports e.g. GGII+. Never had enough courage to switch to it though... :-)

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