Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:36:13 +0200 From: se@mi.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser), freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ncr 825 clone hunt Message-ID: <199610162036.WAA18858@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961016143729.9246A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>; from Narvi on Oct 16, 1996 14:39:17 %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961016143729.9246A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Narvi writes: > > Stefan Esser stands accused of saying: > > > > > > 2) Tekram offers (BSD copyrighted!) driver sources for their cards, > > > including the AMD 53c974 based ones. See their Web page (sorry, > > > don't remember the URL, but there was an announcement in a FreeBSD > > > list, a few weeks ago). But those AMD chips are far less capable > > > than the NCR chips! > > > > Would it be good to import the 53c974 driver? Does anyone have one of > > these to test with? > > Is it the same chip so many people had on their motherboards that FreeBSD > did not support? If yes, then it should go in. Yes, it actually is that particular chip, which is also part of the AMD Combo Chip, which contains an Lance Ethernet in the PCI chip. I looked at the driver, and it seems to be written with modularity and re-usability of code more important than performance. While their 53c875 driver contains card specific code, I don't think this is true of the 53c974 code, and it should thus work with those Compaq and HP systems that have that chip on their motherboard. Somebody who got such a system may want to try the driver, and even if it is Tekram specific, we may want to import it, and apply local patches (which is allowed, if I remember their copyright correctly). Regards, STefan
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