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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!dcs.ed.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Subject: Re: MCA X-Nntp-Posting-Host: amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk Message-ID: <E25ICH.4nI.0.staffin.dcs.ed.ac.uk@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK. X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] References: <584q78$73c@rebecca.albany.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:45:52 GMT Lines: 23 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32290 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4962 In article <584q78$73c@rebecca.albany.edu>, h25.schuyler@ wrote: > > A while ago, I saw (in the release notes for FreeBSD 2.0.5ALPHA) that work was > underway on support for the IBM Microchannel bus. I have a large amount of MCA > based equipment, and naturally I have been wondering how far this is getting. If > you have any information, please Email me. Thanks. I've been working on some patches for the NetBSD 1.2 kernel to support PS/2 systems with the MCA bus. I've been testing them on a PS/2 Model 70-E61. Also included are patches for the ISA "ie" 82586 Ethernet driver to make it bus-independent and an MCA front-end for same to drive the 3Com 3C523 card. More MCA device drivers are to follow, hopefully. See http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~st/netbsd-mca.html If anybody thinks this stuff will be useful to FreeBSD, feel free. -- Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, <s.telford@ed.ac.uk> University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978) "Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" "What's the difference?" - Snow Crash