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Date:      Sat, 17 May 1997 22:04:54 +0200 (MEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
To:        root@bmccane.uit.net (Wm Brian McCane)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Digiboard RealPort protocol ??
Message-ID:  <199705172004.WAA23739@sos.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199705171635.LAA24908@bmccane.uit.net> from Wm Brian McCane at "May 17, 97 11:35:58 am"

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In reply to Wm Brian McCane who wrote:
> > 
> > Anybody having any info on how this is implemented ??
> > 
> > If I can get my hands on this, I'll write a driver for
> > it asap, if I need to reverseengineer it, well, it will
> > take a little longer, but it is legal here in the EU :)
> > 
> > (Digiboard are you listening??)
> Is this the same protocol used for the DigiChannel Boxes??  I have access to 
> about 80 ports worth of digichannel's from a customer that upgraded his NCR to 
> an HP9000, including the EISA interface cards for them (Do they make PCI?). I 
> would be willing to throw my weight into a project to make these boxes work 
> with FreeBSD, if I could find out what is required to talk to them.

Donno, the realport protocol are used to control the PortServer products
from the host so it looks like a bunch of normal tty ports to the
programs running on the host...

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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