Subject: Re: iBook problems and solutions
To: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
From: Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/26/2007 12:35:39
Hi,

On 8/26/07, David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Michael Lorenz wrote:
> >... 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?

In fact, this [1] appears to be a "daca" driver for NetBSD, written by
Tsubai Masanari. I can't test it too, though, since I don't have DACA
hardware.

[1] http://cvsweb.ki.nu/mef/macppc/sys/arch/macppc/dev/daca.c

     -Marco