| To: | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> |
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| Subject: | Re: linux 2.4.8: The DECstation 5000/2x0 NVRAM module driver |
| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:34:45 -0400 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010906141756.28792A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:31:45PM +0200 |
| Mail-followup-to: | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
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* Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl) wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > The driver patch and supplementary changes are available at: > 'ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/drivers/ms02-nv/'. > > 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. 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
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