Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:18:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: "Larry S. Lile" <lile@stdio.com> Cc: npe@bfc.dk, tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Turbo 16/4 PCMCIA cards ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616101632.455N-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980616092414.22784B-100000@heathers2.stdio.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Larry S. Lile wrote: > > How similar is it to the IBM shared memory cards? > > It is exactly the same except for it has additional registers > for the pc-card bus info. Same port address, mmio addresses, > shared ram address, commands (except no bridging I think) > etc. This will be useful if we get Onno van der Linden's NetBSD driver to play with. I expect to hear from him any time though his email is aparently very high latency and he probably has other things to keep him busy. > > > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 npe@bfc.dk wrote: > > > > > Would it be possible to use the IBM Turbo 16/4 cards (perhaps even > > > > > PCMCIA?) with the IBM Auto 16/4 drivers??? And when (2 month - 2 year > > > > > ??) will there be a generic (standard) TR programming interface so > > > > > customizing of the kernel would not be necessary ? > > > > > > > > Hummm... We don't have support for any token ring cards yet; stay tuned > > > > for drivers for shared memory adapters as they will be the first to work. > > > > > > > > As far as code goes I don't think we'll want to reinvent the wheel any > > > > more than we have to. > > > > > > > > > ps. I'm very pleased that someone is doing this great job with TR > > > > > support in FreeBSD .. When the support is stable enough I will be able > > > > > to use FreeBSD at our costumers.. (and that would be great :) > > > > > > > > Thats the idea. :) > > > > > > > > /* > > > > Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life > > > > winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to > > > > http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 > > > > */ > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > /* > > Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life > > winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to > > http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 > > */ > > > /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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