Re: DECstation porters unite !

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

>   o Ethernet (Lance 7990) - should be able to derived from the Sparc port,
>     major difference is that the Lance has a separate memory area in at
>     least the DS[23]100 and 5000/200 and isn't able to do DMA.

a Lance in shared memory mode. There are already device drivers in
Linux, which use it in that mode (sk_g17, depca).

>   o SCSI in almost (?) all other DECstations - NCR53C94. Is this chip
>     documented ?

there are also two drivers in Linux, esp and mac53c94.

Thomas.

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