Re: cybppc.device

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 09:15:02PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 04:05:14PM +0100, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Markus Illenseer wrote:
> > 
> > > > When is the cybppc.device expected to be supported by NetBSD?
> > >  
> > >  Probably never ever. Is there any reason for NetBSD to support a library
> > > when normally it overtakes the Amiga and drops all devices and libraries?
> > > (If you mean a PPC-port: in the works)
> > 
> > Oh the helpfull and never sarcastic NetBSD crowd is there to help you...
> > ...again :)
> > 
> > He ofcourse wondered if there was any work done to support the UW-SCSI 
> > controller wich residents on the CS-PPC and CS-mkIII acc-cards from Phase5.
> > 
> > Was that so hard to understand?
> 
> Yes. I, for example, not knowing the internals of the CS-PPC software by P5, 
> do NOT know what the duties fo cybppc.device are.

Maybe I should add that I once thought that it would be cool to emulate 
parts of exec.library, timer.device and expansion.library inside the NetBSD
kernel, to be able to use AmigaOS drivers. Would be a cool hack.

        -is