> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
> > > I haven't heard anything from here about support for the color graphics
> > > option board in these units, however I would like to lose the VT-340
> > > console. Is there a way to get the unit to run as a mono adapter?
> > > Any further progress on the DMA SCSI code?
> > > 
> > I think the progress is low... Unfortunately I haven't had any spare
> > time lately to put into NetBSD efforts.
> 
> How difficult would DMA support be to code? Could you give me some hints
> how this could be done? I think the NCR chips are quite well documented,
> aren't they? Or I could grab some code from another platform of NetBSD or
> Linux or something...
> 
The only problem with it is that there needs to be some smart-locking
so that 5380 registers on any controller is touched while a DMA transfer
is on-going. This isn't actually a big problem, but it hasn't been 
fixed yet.

-- Ragge