Subject: Re: How to get hardware supported?
To: Konrad Neuwirth <konrad@fimsch.net>
From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/24/2001 00:03:51
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:33:32PM +0200, Konrad Neuwirth wrote:
> Hi Jaromír,
> 
> > Don't know about others, but chances are the Promise Ultra100/TX2
> > controller would not be too hard to support, since Promise Ultra100
> > is already supported. How does NetBSD probe the card, what
> > does the kernel write when you boot NetBSD?
> 
> The 100 TX/2 is register incompatible with the Ultra 100.  I have
> -- unsucessfully -- tried getting documentation out of Promise on
> that card, but finally decided to just skip it.  I sold my
> brand-new TX/2 and got myself the older, supported, card via ebay.
> 
>    Archive has some discussion from my trials with the card,
> including debug output on booting, AFAIR.

Promise has indicated that they will send me some docs, and I'm waiting
on that currently. (Though I'm not doing the changes - I know nothing
about IDE - I'll see that docs make it to the right people.)

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