Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.4.1 - Clock stops when doing I/O
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/05/2000 00:32:31
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Allen Briggs wrote:
> The real deal would be to get disk DMA going on the AV machines.  Does
> anyone know if linux-mac68k is running DMA on these yet?  Or is anyone
> interested in working on it?  We're already using a little of the DMA
> engine for the mace driver (mac68k/obio/if_mc_obio.c).

I'm interested, but haven't had any time to look into it... and without
documentation on how the hardware works, it's likely to take a lot of
time. Writing the MACE driver took disassembling the MacOS driver, which
was annoying, to say the least :)