From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA04633 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:14:36 -0600 Received: from milano.cup.hp.com (root@milano.cup.hp.com [15.16.124.11]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id KAA06616 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908121712.KAA01110@milano.cup.hp.com> To: Philipp Rumpf cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] GSC cards In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 02:01:40 PDT." <19990812020139.J11312@suse.de> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:12:26 -0700 From: Grant Grundler List-ID: Philipp Rumpf wrote: > Hi, > even if there was not much list traffic in the last weeks, development is > going on and even making real progress. We expect to run our first user > space program RSN. > > One of the areas we now have code for is GSC bus walking. This code is > basically engineered from some hints in the Dino documentation Rather than depend on just one implementation, look at the PA I/O Architecture documents. Dino is an implementation of a PA I/O device. BTW, GSC and HP-PB bus walk are basically the same - both follow PA I/O architecture. grant > and not > tested with any other device (Lasi, Artist, and the CPU, though on the > GSC bus, do not use the HPA pages and are not auto-detectable in the > same way as Dino. > > Therefore, if any of you have access to other machines than 712's or > A180[c]s (this includes 715s), or machines with GSC cards other than > Dino-on-a-card based ones in them, please try to boot them with the Image > at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/parisc/testing/image-2.2.1-gsctest > and send the lines between "GSC init" and "mem_init bla bla bla" here > (it might be a good idea to keep the subject line "Re: GSC cards" instead > to avoid annoying anybody). > > TIA, > > Philipp Rumpf > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to parisc-linux-request@thepuffingroup.com with > `unsubscribe' as the subject. > Grant Grundler Communications Infrastructure Computer Operations +1.408.447.7253