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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Micro Channel Query Date: 14 Mar 1994 02:48:20 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2m0j9k$5j8@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <CMI94z.3FB8@austin.ibm.com> <2lqhst$1h9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <2lqhst$1h9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <CMI94z.3FB8@austin.ibm.com>, <oasis@austin.ibm.com> wrote: >> Recently while installing FreeBSD I saw a comment about a soon to be >> ready MicroChannel release .. could someone please let me know when and >> where I can find that release, please? > >Someone was confused. There is no MCA support in FreeBSD right now, and >unless someone volunteers to do it or there is an effort that we are not >aware of there will probably never be MCA support in FreeBSD. MCA support would require some documentation that just isn't available, or at least isn't widely distributed. There is more than a little interest, as several of us (like me) have the necessary free machines to do the work, but just don't have the docs to do it (I have a PS/2-70 sitting in the next room -- off). I think a staged port using the protected mode BIOS first would make it fairly trivial. I probably couldn't participate directly, both because of my employer and because of my lack of an MCA ethernet card, but there are others who could with a little bit of help. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.