Subject: Re: NetBSD on Jensen, restarting..
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/15/1997 19:43:26
As Matt Thomas wrote...
> At 06:49 PM 10/14/97 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >As Ross Harvey wrote...
> >> 
> >> Get the platform working with existing netboot code first. Only when
> >> everything is working diskless should you screw around with a new driver.
> >
> >Maybe I'm missing your point: this would mean that I need to get a DE422
> >(that's what the Jensen has) driver working. 
> 
> That's a front end to the le driver.  Anyways the DE203/4/5 now have a
> driver and their supported on the Jensen for booting.  That requires 
> doing a bus_space_* implementation for Jensen's EISA/ISA bus but you'd
> have to do that for the 1742 anyways.  I can write you a DE422 frontend
> for the le driver fairly easily.

Thanks for your offer. As Chris has pointed out quite clearly I should not
have to worry about the DE422 working for the foreseeable future. When
(if?) I get there I'll ring a bell.

Wilko
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