From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 27 15:46:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF6537B419 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:46:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fARNoYj04982; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200111272350.fARNoYj04982@mass.dis.org> To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'Andrew Gallatin'" , "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: booting a 2100 with EISA MyLex controller In-Reply-To: Message from Wilko Bulte of "Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:37:26 +0100." <20011128003726.A6845@freebie.xs4all.nl> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:50:34 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > It's not just a case of writing an EISA attachment, unfortunately. > > The EISA firmware is, er, quirky, and making it work properly might > > entail a fair amount of effort. I could never justify the time > > involved, sorry. 8( > > Kees-Jan, if you want a x86 EISA box to take a shot at this yourself > I have one for grabs in Arnhem... I also have documentation and sample code, both of which you will be utterly screwed without, if you're mad enough to take this on. While you're at it, you could fix the nagging problems with 2.x and 3.x controllers; I sent all of mine to Matt Dodd, who was going to take over maintainership but never did. 8( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message