Subject: Re: nell driver -- what needs to be done?
To: berry <sberry@housebsd.org>
From: DP <dp@recycled.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/2001 13:03:27
Me Three. I've got one sitting around; or I can loan a SPARCStation Voyager 
sans built-in screen to such a cause as well -- it has an integrated nell.


Quoting berry <sberry@housebsd.org>:

> 
> We'll be glad to donate a nell board to the cause, just tell us where
> and
> when.  :)
> 


> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David C. Myers wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > I've just got one of these SBus-based PCMCIA readers.  What needs
> to
> > > be done on the driver?  I notice that simply inserting a card causes
> a
> > > panic...
> > >
> > > So:
> > >
> > > 1) Is anyone working on a driver?
> > >
> > > 2) Are there any reference materials on the chipsets used in this
> > > device?
> > >
> > 	I believe pk wrote the driver working from some tech docs, but
> > 	without access to the hardware.
> > 
> > > 3) Anything I need to know in general -- something like, oh,
> there'd
> > > have to be a major kernel overhaul to support
> insertions/removes...?
> > >
> > > 4) How do I specify which PCMCIA drivers should be included in my
> > > kernel?
> > >
> > 	edit your /sys/arch/sparc/conf/XXX file before config.
> > 
> > > 5) What about this mysterious warning... "kernel panics if audioamd
> is
> > > also configured"?
> > 
> > 	As far as I know, nell uses the same interrupt level as audioamd,
> > 	and the kernel does not currently support that sharing.
> > 
> > 	I no longer have access to a box with a nell, and I didn't really
> > 	get to do anything useful with it while I had, but I know there
> > 	will be some others out there who would love a working driver :)
> > 
> > 		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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