On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:03:17PM -0400, Darrin B. Jewell wrote:
> "Soren S. Jorvang" <soren@t.DK> writes:
> > 
> > Okay. Do you have any suggestions for things I could try?
> > -- 
> > Soren
> 
> Well, you could try compiling the bootstrap with EN_DEBUG
> and perhaps playing with next68k/stand/boot/en.c a little.

Already tried that. Will try further.

> I'm currently a little suspicious of the "bmap" chip which controls
> memory accesses and has a couple of ethernet related bits.  I'd like
> to know what bits might be useful there and whether they might be
> different on different machines.  I suspect the memory locations of
> devices might be slightly different on the '030 machines due to
> different handling of SLOT_ID_BMAP in the nextstep cpu.h header files.
> Similarly, I have no idea if the turbo machines are different.

I'll play around a bit.

> Also, the nextstep kernel seems to continuously check against the 
> "313" in the "dma_chip" global kernel variable.  I know I have
> a fujitsu chip with the #313 on it in the center of my motherboard.

I don't see any interesting Fujitsu chips at all on my board (top side
only).

The guy from Fujitsu Microelectronics just told me that he
couldn't find any mention at all of the MB8795 in their archives.

> Maybe the turbo machines have a different dma_chip value in the
> nextstep kernel.  I should probably write a nextstep LKM to probe
> some of these values, but it is likely I won't be able to do so
> until this weekend at the earliest.  Maybe someone else already
> has a way to probe the turbo machines handy.


-- 
Soren