Subject: Re: SunPC sbus card
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/20/2004 17:00:09
Robert Mohr wrote:

>I recently purchased via E-bay a 170MHz SPARCstation 5 box to replace my
>tortoise like 85MHz superparc-based SPARCstation 5.  Considering I won the
>auction at the low price of $16.49, I was very happy to find all three sbus
>slots populated (not to mention a floppy drive, CDROM, two RAM chips, and a
>single HDD).  
>
>One sbus slot contained a framebuffer I have not yet identified (main chip
>is marked LSI, L1A9765 ICFAA, FCC ID is GWVTGX1m), the second contained a
>Happy Meal Ethernet card (wohoo! 100baseT), and the final is a SunPC card.
>
>From the information I've found so far via google, it appears that this card
>was used under Solaris to provide Windows compatibility.  I did find a few
>threads in some NetBSD archives where people had asked about support of the
>card, but didn't find anywhere that indicated if anyone had taken enough of
>an interest to actually do anything with it.
>
>Has anyone toyed around with adding kernel support for this beast?  If so,
>I'd love to hear about what success you may have had.  I have no particular
>use in mind for this at all, I'm just curious if anyone has played with it.
>  
>

There's no support for the SunPCi cards in NetBSD.  (I have one inside my
Ultra 60, and it's part of the reason why it runs Solaris 9.)

    - Greg