On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Al B. Snell wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > WRT the FDDI cards, that comes up from time to time on
> > port-sparc.  Apparantly, lots of the SBUS FDDI cards are based on
> > proprietary chips, need addition software/microcode/magic incantations to 
> > be present to run.  The last concensous I heard was "it just ain't worth
> > it."
> 
> It'll probably go to the guy at work who said he wanted it, then :-)

Unless its made by Performance Technologies...their SBUS FDDI card is the
only one I've found that would have a decent chance of being usable under
NetBSD.  The SMT is in firmware and someone wrote a Linux driver for
it...although some masochist at SysKonnect did write a Linux SMT stack &
driver for their SBUS FDDI cards.

Sbus FDDI is not out of the realm of possibilities....just not practical.