From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 16 18:58:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA22573 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA22564 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA09673; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:27:39 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610170157.LAA09673@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ncr 825 clone hunt To: se@mi.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:27:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610162036.WAA18858@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from "Stefan Esser" at Oct 16, 96 10:36:13 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Esser stands accused of saying: > > > > > > 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. Is this a major problem? (Perhaps a silly question to ask 8) > 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). Spiff. I've asked around and can't find one of those cards here, so I can't help 8( Regardless, we should say some nice things to and about Tekram for this; it's a kind and brave thing they've done. > Regards, STefan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[