At 3:03 Uhr +0200 01.04.1998, Ken Nakata wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:57:19 +0200,
>Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> wrote:

>> In fact, if only I get a night or three to dive into it, the driver LKM can
>> go beta in a few weeks. A redesign of vital parts appears to have squashed
>> a nasty bug. I'm still unquiet, though: I prefer bugs leaving a mark on my
>> hands so I _know_ I hit them. That one disappeared silently instead.
>
>Ur... sorry.  I thought you'd done it already.

I had a very preliminary version (mor like a proof of concept ;) on puma,
but it would crash hrorribly on writes.

>> Where'd you get that from? I suppose that - like apparently much of the
>
>Apple TechNotes and DevNotes say it's a custom LSI called New Age, but
>the fact is, if you take a look at an AV Mac logic board, you'll
>notice that the real identity of the New Age chip is an NEC uPD72070,
>a variation of uPD765.  Surprise?  I called NEC's local branch here
>and asked for a copy of datasheet.  They say they have it and are
>going to send it to me :-)  I hope I will be able to reuse much of
>i386 fd driver as it's written for the 765 and its friends.

But - how in all the world do they do GCR?!

	hauke


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