From owner-freebsd-tokenring Tue Jun 16 07:18:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12627 for freebsd-tokenring-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12620 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 07:18:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA23325; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:18:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:18:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" Reply-To: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Larry S. Lile" cc: npe@bfc.dk, tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Turbo 16/4 PCMCIA cards ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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