Subject: Re: Improvements in Acorn NC support
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Mike Pumford <mpumford@mpc-data.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/18/2001 15:25:09
> [ Sent here since we don't have a port-acorn32 mailing list yet ]
> 
> Anyone trying to run NetBSD/acorn32 on an Acorn NC is likely to find the
> work I've done over the weekend useful.  Specifically, I've modified the
> "ne at podulebus" driver to work around a bug in the MX98905 chip used on
> EtherI and EtherN cards, so they can now be used with NetBSD.]

What bug is this? I didn't notice any problems when I did the original 
development work. On a related note my current acorn32 kernel detects my 
Etherlan 602 card as an NE1000 rather than an NE2000. It still works but takes 
up loads more CPU doing all packet transfers using 8bit rather than 16bit 
transfers. Do you know why this is or should I do some digging? My first guess
is something has gone bad in the 16bit bus_space routines.

Mike