Re: NetBSD ported to the IBM MCA RS/6000 model 7006

[Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>]

On 15-Jan-2008 Karl Dietz wrote:
> Congrats Tim, you got it booting on a 7011-250 (model 0x46) blindly.

Ahh.. good to hear.  Looks like you have the exact same ioplanar as the one in
the 7006. (slot 15 == f6fe)  Lucky you, as they are a bit of a pain to figure
out.

Now all that leaves is the nasty little problem of MCA bus_dma code to get the
scsi/ethernet working.  I haven't had much time to play with it recently, due
to my work on ofppc.  I hope to get back to it soon though.  We do have drivers
in-tree for those devices, they just need a bit of mca glue code, and probably
a dma back end. (I don't think either device can do any kind of PIO)

If anyone else is interested in trying, I will offer what assistance I can.

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Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>
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