Subject: Re: VS4000 SCSI: status
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/08/2000 22:25:56
>
> I looked at modifying the ncr53c9x to pass the proc but that would involve
> extensive changes (such more than i would want to make). I might be able
> to cheat and only do vmapbuf/vunmapbuf on KA46/KA48/KA49.
>
Yep, that would be simple (until a better solution comes):
if (vax_boardtype != VAX_BTYP_49)
return;
or similar in vmapbuf/vunmapbuf. The quick solution :-)
> Also today I found out that the KA49 (and related designs) use a slightly
> different mechanism for their SGMAP. Since they have a SGEC, they only have
> a 8192 entry SGMAP in dedicated SRAM. So the vsbus_dma needs adapt to this
> difference.
>
Does it have special RAM for it (as the Qbus adapter) or does it use
the main memory on a special place (as the KA46)?
-- Ragge