Subject: Re: README: changes to CS8900 driver
To: None <richard.earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/12/1998 17:38:30
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

: Well, I've finally managed to lay my hands on a Shark, but while I can 
: boot the snapshot kernel on ftp.netbsd.org, kernels built from -current 
: are failing completely.   After some probing, I discovered that the new 
: code is failing to find the CS8900 chip, and while adding an entry to 
: compatible_strings in dev/ofisa/if_cs_ofisa.c of the form "CS8900" allows 
: the probe to find the chip, the attach is still failing because it can't 
: find the media information.

[mainly directed at Jason] This is part of the old cs_ofisa.c hack code that
hardwired the info.  Was this code completely removed?  It's needed in the
case of COMPAT_OLD_OFW.

: Do I have a weird Open Firmware build, or are other people seeing this?

Old, that's all.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)