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Re: IBM NetStation 1000 Platform



In article <20030417005406.54531.qmail%web41414.mail.yahoo.com@localhost>,
John Gordon <john_94501%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:

That is great, can you send-pr it please so that it does not get lost?

christos

>Hello folks,
>
>I have converted my platform port to a standalone platform against -current. If
>anybody would like it, let me know and I'll send you the tar file (it is about
>50KB compressed). In the tar file are all the new files, and a small patch to
>integrate it with the build mechanism and disable building of the 'file'
>utility which seems to be broken...
>
>At present, it only supports a serial console. Outstanding issues:
>
>1)  the reboot operation doesn't seem to work. Need to investigate this a
>little as it seems to work up until the moment the MMU comes on.
>
>2) The network interface seems to come up OK, but doesn't actually work. Will
>double check with the linux kernel to see whether this is an IRQ oddity (it is
>the only PCI device I have at the moment, so it might be a PCI problem).
>
>Rgds,
>John...
>
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