From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 29 07:13:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA27802 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 07:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tav.kiev.ua (tav-sita.sita.kiev.ua [193.124.50.39]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA27778 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 07:13:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helg@localhost) by tav.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA08084; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 17:10:15 +0300 To: erich@lodgenet.com, helg@tav.kiev.ua Cc: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <199607291323.IAA01891@jake.lodgenet.com> From: Oleg N Panashchenko Organization: Maxis Labs Date: Mon, 29 Jul 96 17:10:12 +0300 Message-Id: Subject: Re: DigiBoard driver: How to use with X/em? X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Does anybody have any docs or poiters to them about difference between > >PC/Xe and PC/Xem models? If these models are not too different, I can > >try to modify driver to make it working with PC/Xem. > > > > Its been a while since I've looked at these, but from what > I remember, I think the Xem series is a MIPS (R3000?) based > critter, whereas the Xe series is Intel 80186 based. It'd > at least be different bios/cook stuff. I think Digi even distributes > different drivers for the two under their supported platforms. :( If I was Digi, I've made MIPS board compatible with 80186 one :) May be it is necessary just to load MIPS-targeted BIOS to PC/Xem and all IO interface is similar to PC/Xe? Oleg