Subject: Re: A few Sun4m changes
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/22/1996 05:35:31
In article <199604220236.WAA00824@virtual4.eecs.harvard.edu> abrown@eecs.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>I just checked in some changes to allow the Sun4m to use its maximum possible
>SBus burst size. This works fine on the machines I've tried, but please let
>me know (at abrown@netbsd.org) if any problems come up.
>
>In addition, this patch now looks at the PROM's ethernet cable selection.
>This will not fix the problem that was "discussed" a few days ago, since
>the PROM tends to not know or give out this information. As soon as I
>work out a cleaner/MI version of the patch posted here a few days ago
>to /sys/dev/ic/am7990.c I will check that in too. Do note that the kernel
>now defaults to TP instead of AUI, however!
I just added a patch that will use link0 to select utp and -link0 to select
aui. Actually I was committing the patch at the same time Aaron committed
his :-)
christos