Re: Support for newer versions of the Arcin IDE interface?

In article <[email protected]> you write:
>In message <[email protected]>
>          Ben Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hmm.  I've got an ARCIN V6 (bought this year) and it works bearably with
>> -current.
>
>Okay, thanks for that - it's reassuring to know that the latest ARCIN
>card does work.  Presumably the card you have came from APDL.

It did indeed.

>> If you're in a position to try using the latest versions of
>> icside.c and icsidereg.c, that might help, but I don't think any of the
>> fixes I've made should have affected interrupts.
>
>Never having done this before - is that from
>/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src ?
>
>Which file, sys.tar.gz?

Now I come to think of it, the latest icside.c will need the latest version
of some other parts of the kernel too, so yes, get the whole of sys.tar.gz,
then you'll probably need to build the version of config(8) that comes with
it and use that to configure a new kernel.

Alternatively, you could get a -current GENERIC kernel from
<ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/current/200211070000/
 acorn32/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz> and see if that behaves.

>A couple of things I might try first - I think I have the drivers
>*unplugged on the RISC OS side.  Maybe BSD relies on some card
>initialisation being done before the kernel is booted.

This is entirely possible, yes.  I haven't tried using mine with the drivers
*Unplug'ed.

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Ben Harris                                                   <[email protected]>
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