Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 12:23:33 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: dev@flevel.demon.co.uk Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD MCA Support? Message-ID: <9504121823.AA17815@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <207f957c.dbba0-dev@flevel.demon.co.uk> from "dev@flevel.demon.co.uk" at Apr 12, 95 01:24:14 pm
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> Ive just installed FreeBSD on a VLB SVGA SCSI 486 DX4 100Mhz and I am very > impressed, well done :-) I am impressed too. There have been problems reported with the DX4100's, though you'd have to ask someone else for the scoop on this, and they might have been fixed without me noticing... > We also have a IBM PS/70 and would like to run a version of Berkeley Unix > on that machine. I read in the docs (V2.0 RELEASE) that Micro Channel was > not yet supported but was believed to be nearly ready. Have you any news > on MCA support, if you have the email address on whoever is dealing with > this part of FreeBSD I would be grateful. There was early work done by several people on getting MCA support in. I believe the major effor was done by someone using drivers based on the ABIOS (which is callable from protected mode) that IBM put in their machines because IBM has good ideas too. I think there was some work on a SCSI driver, too. If you are seriously considering doing the integration work, I can dig out the pointers and you can bug the original people, but I won't do it if you just want to beta someone elses work, because there basically isn't someone elses work available. If you're just half-serious, this topic has come up before on the hackers list and should be in the mailing list archives, so I can't stop you from digging out the references yourself. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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