Subject: Re: Question about pcn ethernet driver
To: None <port-powerpc@netbsd.org>
From: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 04/18/2003 00:49:30
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 07:42:30AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <20030417195943.GA17314@bseis.eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
> hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de wrote:
> 
> > Sure, from the dmesg of EXPLORA451 (PPC403GCX + AM79C971):
> > 
> > 	le0 at elb0 irq 28
> > 	le0: address 00:00:a7:02:c7:87
> > 	le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
> > 
> > The corresponding driver glue is in file sys/arch/evbppc/explora/dev/le_elb.c
> 
> BTW, I think 79c971 is actually a PCI device, so we should have
> PCI attachments (and should use pci/if_pcn.c) rather than local elb
> for Explora451 (at least for PCnet and S3 VGA).

This doesn't work (yet?). The Explora451 has a FPGA that controls the PCI
attachment. I know how to switch into config mode. But the the I/O and/or
memory region doesn't work as expected.
elb is just a synonym for ExploraLocalBus meaning all cpu-external devices.

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)