>The serial card is more interesting. It's a "SUNW,spif", according to
>OpenBoot, and is rumoured to have eight serial interfaces on it. Looking
>at the card, there's a Cirrus Logic chip and lots of what look like line
>driver chips leading to a Socket With Billions of Pins.

it sounds a little like a serial card i've got.  mine identifies
itself as a csfour, is made by aurora technologies, and has a cd2401
for the four serial ports.  who makes yours?

>If anyone promises to write a driver, I'll gladly give them either card
>for the good of NetBSD's driver support - without drivers, they're no use
>to me, and they came "for free" in some IPXes I bought :-)

i'm in the middle of (slowly) writing a driver for my csfour.  there's
already a driver for the cd2401 in the tree (dev/ic/clmpcc.c), so i'm
not that far off.  i think.  if you wanna send it my way, i'd be
willing to take a stab at it.

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