Subject: Re: Kernel 1.5-32 and Quadra 700 -- Problems
To: Scott Boone <Scott@ScottBoone.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/15/2001 08:13:57
At 16:11 Uhr +0100 14.3.2001, Scott Boone wrote:
>On 3/14/01 3:18 AM, "Hauke Fath" <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> wrote:
>>> 2. Your kernel did not like my Farallon NuBus Etherpeek card.
>>> Your kernel:
>>> Mar 13 10:24:11 bsdserver /netbsd: nubus0 at mainbus0
>>> Mar 13 10:24:11 bsdserver /netbsd: nubus0 slot e: Farallon EtherMac II-TP
>>> (Vendor: Farallon, Part: PN 590a-TP) Type: 0004 0001 010c 0100 not
>>> configured
>>>
>>> Pre1.6 32 kernel:
>>> nubus0 at mainbus0
>>> ae0 at nubus0 slot e: Farallon EtherMac II-TP, 32KB memory
>>> ae0: Ethernet address 00:00:c5:41:33:0f
>>
>> Looks like the card ID was added in -current and not yet pulled up to the
>> release branch(es).

Strange. Looking through /sys/arch/mac68k/nubus/{nubus.h,if_ae.c} I do not
see any significant differences wrt. Farallon ethernet cards. The card
_should_ be probed correctly in 1.5.

>When will the next Pre 1.5.1 ALPHA be hitting the streets? And do you think
>that will be in it?

There are no scheduled snapshots of the -release branches for mac68k,
afaik. But, well, you can always sup release-1-5 or get the 1.5 branch via
anoncvs and build yourself.  =8)

	hauke

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