Subject: Re: MAGMA support
To: Dan Debertin <airboss@nodewarrior.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/14/2002 17:16:08
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:03:14AM -0600, Dan Debertin wrote:
> David Laight writes:
>  > > is set to a non 25 value
>  > 
>  > For a moment I thought this was a discussion about sBus expansion
>  > kits (card, cable and chassis with another half dozen sBus slots).
>  > If you find one of those apply a large hammer to it before anyone
>  > tries to use it.
> 
> Oh damn. And here I thought that lack of sparc SMP support was the
> only thing standing between me and running NetBSD on my main
> machine. Now it appears that my xbox is not only unequivocally _not_
> an engineering marvel, but also probably non-working in terms of
> driver support.

No, I think it's supported by NetBSD. From a sparc GENERIC:
## SBus expander box
xbox*  at sbus? slot ? offset ?
sbus*  at xbox?

> 
> Oh well. Could someone at least remove the driver from the tree so
> people don't get their hopes up, or put a note in GENERIC to the
> effect that it's buggy?
> 
>  > They don't (can't) work reliably.  
> 
> Working fine under SunOS 5.5.1...

So it should work fine under NetBSD too. If you ever find it doesn't work,
please report with send-pr.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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