Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:48:10 -0500 From: Charlie Livingston <charlie@sysninjas.com> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SBus PCMCIA Adapter Message-ID: <20041130144810.GC39707@labyrinth.cs.rogers.wave.ca> In-Reply-To: <1101821864.79642.131.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <20041129012517.GA2110@labyrinth.cs.rogers.wave.ca> <1101821864.79642.131.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I'd be more then happy to test whatever code I can. After a little more investigation, It looks like the hardware needs some sort of a shim to work. Under OpenBSD the PCMCIA card is detected as attached to another device named 'stp'. After a little more searching, it looks like stp is a driver that provides an interface between the actual PCMCIA sockets and the PCMCIA nexus. Some more searching pointed to this code for NetBSD to support this interface; located at the following URL: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/sbus/stp4020.c Although I'm relatively useless for coding, if anyone has the inclination to port this over, i'd be more then happy to lend whatever help I can in testing this. Thanks for all the input. On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:37:44PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson said: > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 01:25, Charlie Livingston wrote: > > I've got a Sun Ultra 1 (it may be an ultra 1E, i'm not sure) that i'm running > > at home as a firewall/nat/server for my home LAN. It works flawlessly under > > FreeBSD 5.3 except for one issue; For the life of me, I can't get the kernel > > to recognise the SBus PCMCIA adapter that came installed in the machine. > > > > I've added pcmcia/carbus support to the kernel and recompiled to no avail; > > > > The kernel compiles cleanly without error, but dmesg still reports that the > > device has no driver attached to it. > > > > I've attached my kernel config and dmesg output below, is there something I'm > > missing? > > As I understand it, at the moment there is no support. A while back > Warner was after a sbus-based Sparc so that he could work on pcmcia > support. Looks like his wish was granted about a month ago, so for now I > would suggest you wait or maybe email him and see if there's any testing > that you can help with. > > Gavin > -- ___//____\\___//____\\___\\___//____\\___//____\\___//____\\___//____\\ Charlie Livingston "What we need to do is take the warning charlie@sysninjas.com labels off of everything and let the http://sysninjas.com problem of stupidity solve itself" - Unknown Author
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041130144810.GC39707>