> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > > In message <200011200137.eAK1bZE02360@trigati.home.net> you wrote:
> > >
> > > The machine boots, and:
> > > probes podule 0 (disabled viewfinder) reporting it is an acorn ether3
> 
> eeks, that does scare me, it should show up as an unidentified card, not as 
> an ether3.  Hmm, maybe someone should mail the bloke who designed if find out 
> what podule id it has, at least that way we can id it.
> 
This may not be quite as bad as you think. Some Ether3 cards were delivered 
romless and so report a podule ID of 0x00000000 (manufacturer ACORN, podule id 
0). There is a kludge in the podules file which maps this to an Ether3. Given 
that we have a way of using the bootloader to force detection of a podule as a 
specific type then this hack should be removed. 

The only really worrying thing is that the Viewfinder card appears to have no 
rational podule ID. This is a bit worrying as it makes it difficult to attach 
a kernel device too. This may be an issue if someone wants to use a viewfinder 
card as a console or X11 device at some point.

Mike