Subject: Re: Hardware graveyard.
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/02/1995 17:49:11
Jason wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:49:31 -0500 
>  David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca> wrote:
> 
>>      Firstly it looks like I have a couple slightly smart serial
>> cards.  These are 16 port VME32 cards.  They will work in both Sun3
>> and Sun4 systems that have VME backplanes.  I would be willing to give
>> someone a card if they either wrote or significantly helped me write a
>> driver for them.
> 
> I'm not sure what these are ... haven't seen one before.  Research time.

Either an ALM-1 or an ALM-2; the former sucked rocks but the ALM-2's weren't
too bad.  SunOS man pages mti(4S) (ALM-1) and mcp(4S) (ALM-2).

Driver source is in /usr/src/sys/sundev/{mti,mcp}.c (et al.) if you have
SunOS source.

>>      I also have a Ethernet board.  I don't know if I can expect it to
>> work or not.  I would suspect that this might be an easy one to integrate.
> 
> It's likely just a VME `ie' board, which NetBSD supports.

Yep, that's pretty much all it could be.  The old Sun-2 Multibus Ethernet
board wedged into a Multibus-to-VMEbus extender.

	- Greg