Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:24:47 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase Message-ID: <199611142224.RAA27830@etinc.com>
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>> Is SDL forthcoming with the technical information required >> to write and maintain drivers? >> >> Jim Shankland >> Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. >> > >Yes, I have written the driver with the information they have given me. >They have been very helpful. They even supplied and shipped 2 N2 boards >and a N2pci board from the USA to me here in South Africa. > >The bulk of the driver has to do with the Hitachi HD64570 chip that the >board is using and that information is in the Hitachi data sheets. The >information about how the chip is interfaced to the rest of the board >is actually very little, because most (all) of the work is done by the >chip. The rest of the board is actually just RAM, bus arbitration logic >and line drivers. gee, sounds just like their (and our) original "archaic" board designs! Wonder what Jim was talking about....... db
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