Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...

On 7/27/2021 11:43 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2021, at 1:19 PM, Istvan Gyenes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No luck yet. I was trying to add a DE205 but I was unable to add it as an EISA card. According to the DE205 manual there is a config utility which can be run on a PC and set the card to work in EISA mode but I do not have a ISA/ESIA based PC any more...
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>> I was able to add a DE200 (one time only) but it uses the same depca driver and also has the "fails to clear memory" problem.
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>> The DE422 is working fine under Digital Unix 4.0E.
> Ok, so we should be able to make it work on NetBSD.  What info does the ECU say about the DE422 (specifically where it’s memory is located)?
>
Here is the relevant output of the ECU

   Slot 4 - Digital EISA Ethernet Controller (DE422-SA)
    Ethernet Network Interface
     Network Interrupt.................... IRQ 5
     Network Controller Buffer............ Address = 0D0000H - 0DFFFF (64K)
     Remote Boot.......................... Disable
     Remote Boot Time-Out................. 30 Seconds
     Network Interface.................... Twisted Pair

and the dmesg entry (on NetBSD 9.99.87 (INSTALL) #3: Tue Jul 27 16:28:21 
CEST 2021):

[   1.0000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 4: DEC DE422 Ethernet
[   1.0000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xd0000-0xdffff
[   1.0000000] le0 at depca2
[   1.0000000] le0: failed to clear memory at 0 (0xff != 0xaa)


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istvan