From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from solo.franken.de (pD951C978.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.201.120]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB49B482A for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:14:10 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 02:11:12 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Daniel Engstrom <5116@telia.com> Cc: Christian Suder , sven.cronenberg@web.de, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] PALinux on HP9000/735-125 Message-ID: <20020108021112.A15052@solo.franken.de> References: <3C388C82.6070509@web.de> <20020106201346.A14927@solo.franken.de> <20020106133432.08684bb1.csuder@cisco.com> <20020106232908.B19425@solo.franken.de> <20020108003433.A13855@zaphod.halden.lillfab.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20020108003433.A13855@zaphod.halden.lillfab.se>; from 5116@telia.com on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:34:33AM +0100 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:34:33AM +0100, Daniel Engstrom wrote: > I think that the PDC only initialize a card that is used for booting. I also > think that Matthew Wilcox had a HP 100MB Ethernet interface up and running a > while ago. (The PDC might have initialzed that board when it searched for boot > devices.) hmm, I had a quick glance over the hp100.c and it looks like the driver does the eisa config itself. So that would explain why it worked. > Another problem with EISA boards currently, is that most of them are > bus-masters and the current EISA support lacks the busmatering and DMA bits. that's why I was looking into the problem. I wanted to improve EISA support. > I have started an eeprom driver a while ago, and I started to try to decode > the EISA parts of the EEPROM. I have about half of it figured out I think, > but the other half seems to be somewhat hard. that's a start. Do you have a patch for your eeprom driver somewhere ? > I looked a doing a parser for the CFG files, but it turns out that there are a > lot of options and stuff. Even binary code overlays that are supposed to be > loaded and executed by the ECU (EISA configuration utility) exists. Adaptec > uses one for the AHA-274x. Not suppoered by HPUX, though. I saw that overlay thing also for the AHA-1742. I just removed it from the .cfg to get eisa_config running with it. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ Alexander Viro on linux-kernel ]