From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 14:06:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA04516 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:06:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA04501 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:06:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA13856; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 15:00:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602012200.PAA13856@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 15:00:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602010115.LAA20591@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 1, 96 11:45:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > So far the wish list is : > > - Watchdog. > - High-resolution timer. > - POST decoder. > - NV console buffer. > > (- Prestoserv. *laugh*) > > Anything else people want? Maybe a soft-serve interface? 8) A bus-mastering DMA board with a POST rom and some LED's that light up with: ISA card: LED 1 (green): L1 cache updated after DMA \ LED 2 (yellow): L1 cache invalidated after DMA > Use tricolor LEDs? LED 3 (red): L1 cache invalid after DMA / LED 4 (green): L2 cache updated after DMA \ LED 5 (yellow): L2 cache invalidated after DMA > Use tricolor LEDs? LED 6 (red): L2 cache invalid after DMA / EISA card: LED 7 (red): EISA bus does not support DMA above 16M Plug in and power on to decide if you want to buy the box, or to find the problem with a customer's box... Actually, if you are in a board-building craze, how about a PCI-only motherboard? 6 (or more) PCI slots No frigging ISA slots. No frigging IDE interface. Zilog UARTs, not Intel (sync serial, X.25, Appletalk, HDLC) NCR53C8xx SCSI on board DEC21040 or AM79C970 ethernet on board Motorola/Eagle MPC105 PCO Bridge/Memory controller FIFO'ed floppy controller S3964 PCI video(?) bidirectional stereo DSP (Gravis?) OpenFirmware boot ROMs Some good clock hardware Seperate keyboard and PS/2 mouse interface. Maybe a parallel port (IEEE 1284 bidirectional/level 3) I'd probably throw multiport serial and/or ethernet cards in the 6 PCI slots. 8-). Does Matrox sell the Meteor chipset? Who sells MPEG chips? 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.