Subject: Re: is SUNW,fas an esp(4)?
To: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@turbolinux.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/17/2000 20:02:46
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> The main issue with getting the esp driver to work with fas is that esp
> expects the DMA engine to be on a separate OBP node but fas has only one
> OBP node and two sets of registers, one for the SCSI chip and the other
> for the DMA engine. Otherwise it should be trivial to get to work. The
> FAS366 docs should be available at the Sun website. ISTR it describes the
> entire ASIC with the HME, FAS366, and DMA engine.
>
> I've been considering writing a driver for it but don't have the H/W.
>
Careful what you say :) I'm happy to lend a FAS/HME sbus card
if it will help - just let me know.
David/absolute
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