Subject: Re: ISA Arcnet cards
To: Port Amiga <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Patryk =?iso-8859-2?Q?=A3ogiewa?= <silverdr@inet.com.pl>
List: port-amiga
Date: 02/26/1999 19:39:32
Napisane 25-Lut-99 przez: Bernd Sieker...
>>>>I have two short 8bit ISA Arcnet cards (for some strange reason).
>>>>If anyone would like to look at adding supprt to NetBSD for these
>>>>cards
>>>
>>> ISA bus is not directly accessible from the Amiga address space. First
>>> there
>>> need to be a support for some kind of bridge e.g. GoldenGate or the CBM's
>>> BridgeBoards. And AFAIK there is not.
>I think OpenBSD has support for some bridge boards, I remember that
>the drivers were there and working, but never integrated into NetBSD.
>Reason enough for some people to switch to OpenBSD.
Yes. OpenBSD is AFAIK the only alternative OS available for Amiga that
supports e.g. GGII+. Never had enough courage to switch to it though... :-)
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