Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK they were there to support hydra or the i486 copro ... but i agree
> > that if they aren't used then they might as well be discarded... If there
> > ever is a need for them we can allways create them anew...
> 
> I've always wanted to write a driver that would support the x86 card in
> the RPC.  I have one and most of the time it just sits there doing
> nothing.  The simplest way would be to lock down a region of physical
> memory that would be owned by the x86 and then create a pseudo network
> device that allowed the two "hosts" to communicate.  Unfortunately, I was
> unable to obtain sufficient information on the Gemini ASIC on the card to
> work out how to communicate with the processor.
> 
> Anyone know if this information was ever made public?
> 
> R.

There was a recent discussion about this on one of the comp.sys.acorn
groups.
Apparently the details of the ASIC are still under NDA which I guess
virtually rules out any open-source software using it.

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