Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 22:04:54 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: root@bmccane.uit.net (Wm Brian McCane) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digiboard RealPort protocol ?? Message-ID: <199705172004.WAA23739@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199705171635.LAA24908@bmccane.uit.net> from Wm Brian McCane at "May 17, 97 11:35:58 am"
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In reply to Wm Brian McCane who wrote:
> >
> > Anybody having any info on how this is implemented ??
> >
> > If I can get my hands on this, I'll write a driver for
> > it asap, if I need to reverseengineer it, well, it will
> > take a little longer, but it is legal here in the EU :)
> >
> > (Digiboard are you listening??)
> Is this the same protocol used for the DigiChannel Boxes?? I have access to
> about 80 ports worth of digichannel's from a customer that upgraded his NCR to
> an HP9000, including the EISA interface cards for them (Do they make PCI?). I
> would be willing to throw my weight into a project to make these boxes work
> with FreeBSD, if I could find out what is required to talk to them.
Donno, the realport protocol are used to control the PortServer products
from the host so it looks like a bunch of normal tty ports to the
programs running on the host...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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