Subject: Re: A1200 Busboard survey! (was Re: CVision3d & A1200T)
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Ruben van Staveren <ruben@luna.net>
List: port-amiga
Date: 02/27/1998 15:50:43
>
> Hi Ruben,
>
> > The question is how good the ZII/ZIII `emulation' of the busboards is
> > as NetBSD/amiga, as I understand, uses information from expansion.library
> > to add boards that do autoconfigure themselfes.
>
> Yes, it does; this way we can be (nearly) sure that anything that works with
> AmigaOS should be visible to NetBSD.
>
> But there are other potential problems.
>
> E.g., I heard that some early zbus-boards dont include bus sizing
> logic, which makes them fail with 68040 and 68060 cpus.
this is needed for ? (I know this is beyond the scope of this list ;) )
This is something that ought to be in the next FAQ :)
>
> Regards,
> -is
>
Greetings,
Ruben
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