On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:03:37AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
>    
>    I think that i remember reading something about a driver for the sbus
>    serial and parallel card recognized by the kernel as SUNW,spif (for the
>    serial ports).
>    Is there any ongoing work on that driver and what's the status of it?
> 
> 
> which is the stif?  i wrote a not-yet-functional driver for the aurora
> tech. 16 port card "sio16" OBP name.  it has two cd180 chips and has
> 16 serial ports on it...  all the code is in sys/dev/ic/cd18xx* and
> sys/dev/sbus/sio16.c.  it's been a while since i worked on this and
> i don't have it in any system currently (this can change but not for
> a few weeks)...

I think that spif is a serial/parallel interface card that uses one of
the integrated serial/parallel chips Sun put on motherboards.  It may
just work.  Can you list the firmware nodes provided by the card?

Eduardo