Subject: Re: Same old questions...
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/21/2001 13:53:38
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
> > >   It would be nice if NetBSD would print the firmware rev levels of
> > > boards like these at device probe time.
> 
> > Unfortunately that is not possible (at least it is not described in the
> > programming manual). This card is really bad.
> 
> Well... we could always retrofit the DELQAs with a small camera pointed
> at the labels of the firmware ROMs, a small computer, some OCR software,
> and a serial connection from which we could read the firmware version.
> 
> It'd be sort of a hack though.

I'm not aware that there are any external identifications on the cards
telling what firmware revision they have either...
Nice idea, though... :-)

	Johnny

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