Subject: Re: iBook problems and solutions
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/26/2007 00:18:32
Hello,
Michael Lorenz wrote:
>>So our awacs driver doesn't like the DACA variety. Thanks for testing,
>>unfortunately I can't do much about it without access to this kind of
>>hardware.
>... and digging a little further it really shouldn't since daca is not
>awacs compatible, the DMA backend is just similar enough to produce
>audible output sometimes.
>I'll hack the snapper driver to do the right thing here and change awacs
>to attach only to chips that are really awacs.
You probably already know this, but OpenBSD uses a different driver for
DACA. (How well it works I can't comment on, since I've never used
OpenBSD on my iBook.)
Interestingly, their man page says (under authors): "The daca
driver was written by Tsubai Masanari and ported to OpenBSD by Joris
Vink." So it may be that something was written for NetBSD a long
time ago but didn't make it into the tree?
Regards,
Dave