From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f86CZcQ15656 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 05:35:38 -0700 Received: from ns.snowman.net (ns.snowman.net [63.80.4.34]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f86CZZd15653 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 05:35:35 -0700 Received: (from sfrost@localhost) by ns.snowman.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id IAA05145; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:34:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:34:45 -0400 From: Stephen Frost To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: linux 2.4.8: The DECstation 5000/2x0 NVRAM module driver Message-ID: <20010906083444.W11136@ns> Mail-Followup-To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rnwvb/07397jTJIO" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:31:45PM +0200 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.snowman.net X-Operating-System: Linux/2.2.16 (i686) X-Uptime: 8:32am up 385 days, 10:50, 13 users, load average: 2.03, 2.01, 2.00 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk --rnwvb/07397jTJIO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl) wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I've prepared a syntactic update to the DECstation 5000/2x0 NVRAM module > driver for linux 2.4.8. There are no functional changes at the moment.= =20 > The driver patch and supplementary changes are available at: > 'ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/drivers/ms02-nv/'. =20 >=20 > I'm looking for a tester with a DECstation 5000/200 and a MS02 NVRAM > module. I'm going to improve the module detection code in the next > version to make it less firmware-dependent. This is needed to support > multiple modules as well as single modules in non-standard slots. I need > to make sure I can rely on bus error exceptions just like in the /240.=20 Welp, I've got a DECstation 5000/200 but no clue what (if any) NVRAM module it has. How can I find out? :) I havn't booted the thing up in quite a while so I'm not even sure it's exactly functional, but I've been looking for an excuse to play with it. Stephen --rnwvb/07397jTJIO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7l21krzgMPqB3kigRAmUNAJ0bKJ71n47W+QOjzZy3t+FYdHrLzACeL6QN 2hX8NzRQB1nZxiZ4XDDNCpw= =ZbvL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rnwvb/07397jTJIO--