Would anyone be willing to submit an entry for the NetBSD/sparc
	FAQ with the accumlated wisdon on SBUS FDDI cards?

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, James Sharp wrote:

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> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Al B. Snell wrote:
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> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Lindgren wrote:
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> > > WRT the FDDI cards, that comes up from time to time on
> > > port-sparc.  Apparantly, lots of the SBUS FDDI cards are based on
> > > proprietary chips, need addition software/microcode/magic incantations to
> > > be present to run.  The last concensous I heard was "it just ain't worth
> > > it."
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> > It'll probably go to the guy at work who said he wanted it, then :-)
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> Unless its made by Performance Technologies...their SBUS FDDI card is the
> only one I've found that would have a decent chance of being usable under
> NetBSD.  The SMT is in firmware and someone wrote a Linux driver for
> it...although some masochist at SysKonnect did write a Linux SMT stack &
> driver for their SBUS FDDI cards.
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> Sbus FDDI is not out of the realm of possibilities....just not practical.
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