Subject: Re: netbooting an OF 1.0.5 macppc with SUNW,hme on PCI
To: None <fair@clock.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/02/2000 01:25:06
In <v04220817b4e2b48625a1@[216.240.40.200]>
fair@clock.org wrote:

> Who would have better IEEE 1275 support on a PCI card than Sun? As it 
> happens, Sun makes a card called the "SunSwift" (model X1032A) which 
> is a combo Qlogic 1040B SCSI (isp*), and SUNW,hme with an Intel (DEC) 
> 21152 PCI-PCI bridge on it.

Does PCI isp SCSI support DMA with big endian hosts?
If no, some byte-swap macros are needed in /sys/dev/isp.c
for DMA transfers, but they would break SBUS isp code.
I think hme_pci might have the same problem.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp