From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 27 21:55:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12241 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@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 VAA12231 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:54:53 -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 AAA14944 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:54:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: National Semi SONIC DP83932 support? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [forgot to cc the list] On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Warner Losh wrote: > Yes, the PICAs have these things built into them.... I'm not sure how > easy/hard it would be to port. They live at a memory address on the > arc port, built into the motherboard.... NS appears to have all the chipset doc available, a reference driver for PC/TCP, and an Application Note about the very card I hapen to have (SONIC+PLX). In addition NetBSD/m68k and NetBSD/pica have drivers, and of course OpenBSD probably has a few small differences. I'm not too sure the NetBSD driver does the right thing but I suppose a working driver is better than no driver at all. This card appears to use the same sort of buffer list management that the TI ThunderLAN chips do. I'm really going to have to shelve this and get back to token-ring stuff as this is yet another example of weird ass hardware that only I have a desire to use. I'll see if I can dig up an ISA example as going through the effort of porting a driver for just an EISA card would probably be a waste of effort. Anyone know of an ISA card (or PCI?) that uses the SONIC chip? /* 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-hackers" in the body of the message