Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
This is an interesting discussion that you two have going on here. And this is
the reason why the company woke up an idea for the mvme147 board, and its
cousins. Now about that reference of yours for "standard for IP over the VMEbus
backplane". Can you point me in that direction.?That is where could I obtain a
copy.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-mvme68k-owner@netbsd.org
> [mailto:port-mvme68k-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Steve Woodford
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:16 AM
> To: Al B. Snell
> Cc: port-mvme68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: VMEBus for network appliances
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Al B. Snell wrote:
>
> > This is the coolest I've seen yet:
> >
> > http://www.general-micro-systems.com/v56.html
>
> That *is* a nice board. It's a bit too different to the motorola mvme68k
> boards for NetBSD/mvme68k to support it. However, if someone wants to send
> me one, I could get a new port: "NetBSD/gmsvme68k" running on it within a
> month or two... ;-)  (That's the theory anyway; in reality, I simply can't
> spare the time now or for the foreseeable future).
>
> > What's the deal with stuff wired to the P2 socket? How do you get the SCSI
> > bus and the serial ports on that thing? Is that what a "transition
> > board" is for?
>
> Looks like it uses the same P2 pinout as Motorola's MVME712 rear
> transition module. That's a board which connects to the back of the VMEbus
> P2 connector and provides a panel with scsi, aui, printer and serial
> ports.
>
> > It'd be fairly neat for me to have a load of CPU cards on a backplane
> > communicating TCP/IP over said backplane... that'd make a great
> > extensible falloverable cluster.
>
> Indeed, but VME devices usually command a premium price. I suspect the
> "V56" would be in the $4000-$6000 range if GMS are competing with
> motorola's offerings. Still,
>
> > Just imagine: as an Internet appliance (as made by www.cobalt.com),
> > something where you can add "disk cards" (CPU, RAM, hard disk, serving NFS
> > over the backplane), "CPU cards" (small disk for OS+swap) and "network
> > cards" (routers) at will... mix and match... Mmmmm....
>
> Yup, that's exactly what VME is designed/used for. There is already a
> standard for IP over the VMEbus backplane, and implementing it for NetBSD
> is somewhere in my work queue, though not near the top. 8-)
>
> Cheers, Steve
>
>
>