Re: EN/SC (was: NetBSD 8.0 on a Mac LC III)
John Klos <[email protected]>
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> In any case, I'd still be interested in working on an EN/SC driver > assuming it's not unreasonable to wrap an existing DP83902 driver around > SCSI accesses in NetBSD. But if I'm developing something new to provide > Ethernet access to older machines, it probably makes more sense to start > with a higher level control strategy to minimize the transactions, so > backwards compatibility doesn't really make sense here. Plus, I'd be > insane to try to directly replicate the register set of the DP83902 just > for compatibility with older drivers. Perhaps this might help, if you haven't seen it before: https://www.netbsd.org/ports/pc532/faq.html#cabletron-ethernet It wouldn't surprise me if the more common Mac products were very similar or the same. John