Subject: Re: Hardware graveyard.
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/02/1995 17:49:11
Jason wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:49:31 -0500
> David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca> wrote:
>
>> Firstly it looks like I have a couple slightly smart serial
>> cards. These are 16 port VME32 cards. They will work in both Sun3
>> and Sun4 systems that have VME backplanes. I would be willing to give
>> someone a card if they either wrote or significantly helped me write a
>> driver for them.
>
> I'm not sure what these are ... haven't seen one before. Research time.
Either an ALM-1 or an ALM-2; the former sucked rocks but the ALM-2's weren't
too bad. SunOS man pages mti(4S) (ALM-1) and mcp(4S) (ALM-2).
Driver source is in /usr/src/sys/sundev/{mti,mcp}.c (et al.) if you have
SunOS source.
>> I also have a Ethernet board. I don't know if I can expect it to
>> work or not. I would suspect that this might be an easy one to integrate.
>
> It's likely just a VME `ie' board, which NetBSD supports.
Yep, that's pretty much all it could be. The old Sun-2 Multibus Ethernet
board wedged into a Multibus-to-VMEbus extender.
- Greg