Hi
 Would financial incentive perhaps encourage the work?
 I would be willing to finance the work of someone on this project. I am
sure that there are others.

It appears that at least one NetBSD user creates drivers with just visions
of beer !

Chris

 ---- Original Message -----
From: "James Sharp" <jsharp@psychoses.org>
To: <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: sbus FDDI cards?


>
>
> > Do you know if the SMT runs on the FDDI card, similar to the DEC FDDI
> > boards?  I don't think I'd be too happy with a bunch of lower layer
> > network handling running in the kernel, but I've no numbers or
experience
> > to back that up.  Just a feeling.
>
> The SMT in the NPI cards run in the kernel device driver.  Thats the big
> problem with them.
>
> > Possibly.  For me, however, NetBSD is probably my only alternative.
I've
> > 6 different platforms that I run on, and having _exactly_ the same
> > environment is the only thing [besides a cup of coffee] that keeps me
> > sane...
> >
> > Plus, I was hoping to give other NetBSD/sparc users access to FDDI.  I
> > don't know how many other people would use it, but it's another card in
> > the NetBSD hand ;-)
>
> It wouldn't be a bad thing...if someone could get ahold of the programming
> information and had the penchant for sadism & masochism needed to write
> the software based SMT.
>
>