Subject: Re: m68k comman part (was Re: mips ports ...)
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 03/19/1996 11:37:48
On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:26:15 -0600 (CST) 
 Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com> wrote:

 > The mac68k serial driver is (I believe) moving towards the MI zs driver; 
 > the FPU emulator is already in /sys/arch/m68k.  You have a point about 
 > the ethernet driver, though... "maybe someday."

The ethernet driver might be a little trickier, but not impossible.  
There needs to be a clear separation of "ethernet chip" operations and 
"card the chip sits on" operations.  Register access is likely to be 
different, as well.

In order to really do this properly, the m68k ports should probably 
implement the <machine/bus.h> interface designed by cgd...then, it might 
even be possible to share things like the 8390 driver with the i386 port...

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