Ken Harrenstien <klh@us.oracle.com> writes:

> I recently picked up a Compaq Deskpro XL, which uses this chip, based
> on the claims in the web sites of both FreeBSD and NetBSD that the
> 53C794 was supported.
> 
> Foolish me -- this turns out not to be the case, and I finally realized
> this is why I can't install either of them.  The FreeBSD people have
> admitted that they dropped support without updating the documentation;
> I'm not sure what the story is for NetBSD however.  (Look at
> http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/pci.html where it specifically lists the
> AM53c974).

	How does it not work? What did you try to boot, and what did
you see? From the reference document you listed, it looks like a
pretty straightforward two-pci-devices-on-one-chip widget. The
Ethernet is likely supported by the le driver (PCI attachment), and
the SCSI by the pcscp driver.

	Admittedly, the pcscp driver only came into existence this
January, so if you tried a 1.3 floppy it wouldn't work. But it sounds
like both parts of this chip have a good chance of working under
-current. You could try the latest snapshot on
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386 and see if that works
better.

	- Nathan