Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 01:24:51 +0000 From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DEQNA support in stable ???! Errrr..... Message-ID: <YQBPR0101MB104272836BBF84490BC7336FDDDA0@YQBPR0101MB1042.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfofLPojvM5demvdKgO3BM6n2XyncfraPGGt7D3Kzf9VeQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <E1escNd-000Ayh-0W@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>, <CANCZdfofLPojvM5demvdKgO3BM6n2XyncfraPGGt7D3Kzf9VeQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Warner Losh wrote: >On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> >wrote: >> >> Unless my memory fails me DEQNA is the Dec Q-bus network adapter >> for MicroVaxen isn't it ? The mini version of the DEUNA interface for >> the full size Vax/11 machines. Now, I woudn't be surprised to see this >> in netBSD, but kind of surprised to see it in FreeBSD! Anyone care to >> enlighten me ? >> > >FreeBSD has never had support for DEQNA. The if_deqna was added by me when >I wrote devd as a ridiculous, never to clash with anything example. First, >it is 'qe' in other BSDs. Second, FreeBSD will never run on VAXen. It was >mostly a joke.=20 As the original author of the if_qe.c driver for the Qbus DEQNA, I can hone= stly state that that hardware was a joke. It was a pig to program and didn't fol= low its own published spec. My driver allowed CSRG to convince DEC to give them their driver from Ultrix, but it wasn't much better. (When I retired a few years ago, I still had a MicroVAXII sitting under my = desk, mostly as a joke. It was sooo sllooowwww, but it would still boot some var= iant of 4BSD.) rick=
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